Baku. Today in Baku started two international exhibition
of agriculture and the food industry - World Food Azerbaijan and Agrihort
Azerbaijan. Speaking at the opening, the
agriculture minister Heydar Asadov said that their work involved more than 240
companies from 36 countries.
According
to him, the incentive interest of foreign participants was the introduction of
modern technologies in the agribusiness sector, which led to total
self-sufficiency of the republic for a number of agricultural products.
International
exhibitions allow potential foreign customers become more familiar with the
benefits of local organic products, as well as reduced investment climate for
large partners, he said. According to
experts, the potential of the local agricultural sector is not developed even a
quarter. The reason for this exaggerated intervention of officials, in the
absence of conditions for lending to small and medium-sized farms in the
dominance of bureaucratic monopoly and, above all, in the absence of
institutional reforms and systematic approach to problem solving.
The agro-industrial complex involves approximately
1,208,000 villagers, most of whom have difficulty processing allotments.
Problems with irrigation in remote sites, ensuring chemicals and fertilizers in
crop, pasture and reproductive purebred cattle breeding, a number of other
obstacles do not allow developing this segment of the economy. Numerous decrees
and orders of the President on the background of disinterest of the mass
producer remain letters on paper.