13/05/2010 17:22
FAO provides Armenia with $1,8 million in 2008-2009s
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provided Armenia with total of nearly $1,8 million in 2008-2009, said organisation’s Director-General Jacques Diouf at the 27th FAO regional conference for Europe, taking place in Armenian capital of Yerevan. He said that the FAO is ready to keep on assisting and supporting Armenia.
Armenia’s Minister of Agriculture Gerasim Alaverdian, in his part, marked the importance of the two-day regional conference in the context of the approval of the FAO two-year program. Gerasim Alaverdian said that the FAO had directed $40,000 to Armenia for a burial ground of pesticides, and is developing a program of establishing of special laboratories, estimated to cost $2 million.