Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 28
By Anvar Mammadov - Trend:
The cost of technical assistance of the EU aimed at the project to create e-agriculture will amount to 1.4 million euros, head of the office of agriculture ministry of Azerbaijan Ilham Bayramov said.
He made the remarks Jan. 28 at a seminar dedicated to the implementation of the project.
"The work within the first phase of the technical assistance has already started," he said. "The EU has provided the Azerbaijani side with the technical requirements for the development of an information system for agricultural subsidies, IT-infrastructure of e-agriculture, orthophoto (an aerial photograph geometrically corrected, used to measure true distances) system."
Bayramov said that the tender for selecting contractors to undertake the work has been already held.
"The winner of the tender became a consortium of six companies from Hungary, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Italy and Azerbaijan," he said.
The aim of the project is to ensure a fair and transparent distribution of agricultural subsidies. Assistance should ensure reliable data for use in policy-making and assessing the impact of policy and contribute to improving the quality of life in rural areas.
