Farmers Take Advantage of Anti-crisis Agricultural Plan Programs

Farmers and entrepreneurs involved in agricultural activities receive significant support from the state as part of the anti-crisis agricultural plan Caring for Village and Farmers.

As of July 24:

  • Within the framework of the state program to encourage agricultural landowners, more than 115,000 farmers have already collected agricultural points. The amount of the allocated subsidy exceeds 21 million GEL. Accrual of agricultural points
  • Under the agro-diesel discount program, more than 106,000 beneficiaries received agro-diesel discount cards of up to 28,000 tons. Farmers who have already cashed the discount cards have saved more than 3,000,000 GEL in total.
  • Within the framework of the agro-insurance program as of July, 2020, more than 15,422 policies have been issued under the state agro-insurance program, which is 24% more than in the same period last year. More than 15,000 hectares of land are insured, the value of the insured crop exceeds 140 million GEL.
  • Within the framework of the state program on modernization and market access of the dairy farming sector, more than 1000 applications have been filed in the Imereti, Kakheti, Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti, Samtskhe-Javakheti and Kvemo Kartli regions.
  • Under the preferential agro-credit program, the state fully covers the 6-month interest to secure financing of the short-term costs of growing annual crops. 1528 agro-loans have been issued, the total amount of the loans exceeds 25 million GEL, where the co-financing of interest by the Agency exceeds 2.2 million GEL.
  • Program of Agro-production Promotion covers 380 beneficiaries, total program budget is 10 mln Gel.

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