Armenia to host international potato seminar next August

Hrachya Berberyan, head of an Armenian farmers union, said today that Yerevan will host an international potato seminar in August 2016. He said Armenia’s natural and climatic conditions are very favorable for potato growing. According to him, the decision to organize the seminar was taken during a recent meeting of Armenian and Georgian farmers, specializing in potato growing. It was the first such meeting where the sides looked into the prospects for export of Armenian potato seeds to Georgia. According to Berberyan, the meeting was attended also by representatives of international organizations, as well as their partners from the Netherlands. More