Increasing the possibility of exporting greenhouse complexes, the means to combat the monopoly in the markets of Azerbaijan, and shortcomings in the field of tourism are the leading topics of today's press.
The newspaper Azerbaijan writes that with the use of greenhouse complexes, export opportunities are growing. In recent years, only 32 modern greenhouse complexes have been created in the settlements of Baku, to which the state itself allocated funds.
For this purpose, the National Fund for Entrepreneurship Support allocated concessional loans for AZN 95.8 million. This sphere brought revenues from the sale of tomatoes amounting to 94 million US dollars in 2016 and USD 151 million in 2017.
Currently, the existing greenhouses and those under construction cover about 3 thousand hectares in Azerbaijan.
The Yeni Musavat newspaper is discussing whether the newly created State Consumer Market Control and Antimonopoly Agency will be able to "get over" with the monopolies.
Experts note that this agency should ensure that the market does not form a monopoly, and also protect the rights of consumers. The expert Natig Jafarli believes there was no need to create such a body. The expert gives his calculations about the above and he also wonders what control will be established over prices in the market. It would be better if the state created conditions for the development of healthy competition and supported small and medium-sized businesses, the expert believes.
The newspaper Novoye Vremya writes about the availability of domestic tourism and the absence of statistics on this. Statistics show that the number of Azerbaijani citizens traveling abroad has been decreasing in recent years, while the number of tourists coming to our country is increasing. And if the statistics on the latest indicator, that is, inbound tourism, are abundant, that is how many tourists came from which country, how much money they spent, etc., then it's rather difficult to talk about domestic tourism, since there are no statistics on this.
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Georgian law enforcement has detained an ethnic Azerbaijani in Marneuli who gained international attention through a viral video showing him stuffing a stack of ballots into a voting box, according to Shalva Papuashvili, a member of the political council of the "Georgian Dream" party and the parliament chair.
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On October 28, Baku experienced rain once again. As with five days earlier, streets and homes in the capital flooded. Fortunately, unlike the previous incident, no fatalities occurred this time in waterlogged tunnels. (On October 22, two people drowned in a tunnel flooded with rainwater in Sabunchu district.)
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Two women have died from mushroom poisoning in the Khachmaz region, located 200 km north of Baku. According to Azar Magsudov, the head of the toxicology department at the Clinical Medical Center (CMC), the victims were 46 and 41 years old.
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Changeable weather is expected in Baku and the Absheron Peninsula; rain is possible in some areas in the evening and fog in the morning and evening. Northwest wind will change to the southeast.
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