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Agriculture in Azerbaijan (January-August 2015)

Analysis Materials 15 October 2015 14:20 (UTC +04:00)

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed an order in August to strengthen the state support for the livestock development in the country.

According to the order, some 15 million manat envisaged by the state budget-2015 will be allocated from the president's reserve fund to Aqrolizinq OJSC to import the cattle into the country, to breed cattle and sell it to agricultural producers engaged in animal husbandry with a 50 percent privilege through leasing.

The Cabinet of Ministers was charged with financing.

According to the Azerbaijani president's other decree, the subsidy in the amount of 100 manat will be set to strengthen the public support for improving the livestock and to further provide the population with cattle.

The Cabinet of Ministers was charged with determining a procedure for granting subsidies for each bull, obtained by artificial insemination, and solve other issues arising from the order within two months.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev also signed an order on measures to improve the livestock logistics.

According to the order, some 5.8 million manat envisaged in the state budget-2015 will be allocated from the president's reserve fund to the Ministry of Agriculture, including 2.8 million manat - to complete the reconstruction in accordance with modern requirements of the Republican Center for Artificial Insemination, 1.5 million manat - to complete the measures of developing the Karabakh horses and 1.5 million manat - to take measures of developing Dilbazi horses to increase the livestock production, to improve the cattle breeding, to rapidly take measures on artificial insemination and preservation of local horse breeds.

Some 63.2 million manat were allocated to Azerbaijani agricultural producers for fuel and motor oil for the equipment used in the land cultivation in August.

According to the decision of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Agriculture, taken at a meeting of the Republican Commission in August, some 63,197,350 manat were allocated to 372,234 producers in 60 districts (cities) for the cultivation of 1,263,947 hectares of cultivated lands to cover the expenses for fuel and motor oil.

The agricultural production volume in actual prices amounted to 4.13 billion manat in Azerbaijan in January-August 2015 or by 7.4 percent more compared to the same period of last year.

According to the Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee's report as of eight months, during this period the livestock production increased by 2.2 percent, crop production - by 12.3 percent.

Plant cultivation

The main plant products are being collected in the country. As of September 1, 2015, some 2.78 million tons of grain were collected in Azerbaijan from a 913.6 hectare-territory (99.8 percent of the total sown area of ​​grain and leguminous crops (except wheat), which is 27.5 percent more than in the same period of 2014.

On average, some 30.4 centners were collected from each hectare. The total yield increased by 7.6 centners.

High yield is also observed in the corn collection. Thus, the average yield per hectare increased by 6.8 centners and reached 53 quintals compared to the same period of last year. Some 69,600 tons of corn were collected from the 13,200 hectare-territory (36.1 percent of the total cultivated area).

In general, some 685,000 tons of potatoes, 1.01 million tons of vegetables, 456,300 tons of melon, 352,600 tons of fruits and berries, and 37,200 tons of grapes, 379.4 tons of tea and 2,400 tons of tobacco were collected during the reporting period, which, respectively, 5.1, 3.1, 11.2, 2.7, 0.3, 19.8 and 29.3 percent more than in the same period of 2014. Some 15,000 tons of sunflower were collected during the reporting period, which is 11.6 percent less than in the same period of last year.

Jan.-Aug. 2015

Jan.-Aug. 2014

Collected from the sown area, thousand ha

%

Harvested crop, thousand ha

Yield, quintal/ha

Collected from the sown area, thousand ha

Harvested crop, thousand ha

Yield, quintal/ha

grain (without corn)

913,6

99,8

2781,4

30,4

953,9

2177,0

22,8

corn

13,2

36,1

69,6

53,0

13,3

61,3

46,2

cotton

18,8

22,9

132

sunflower

7,9

74,4

15,0

18,9

9,1

17,0

18,6

tobacco

1,4

2395,4

1,1

1852,4

potato

47,5

77,9

685,0

144

48,6

651,9

134

vegetables

69,3

89,9

1011,5

146

68,3

980,6

144

melons and gourds

27,1

97,2

456,3

169

27,3

410,4

150

fruits

352,6

343,5

grape

37,2

37,1

green tea

379,4

316,7

The relevant work for getting harvest in 2016 was also conducted in the farms. Some 237,600 hectares were plowed for autumn sowing, which is 7.5 percent more than in the same period of last year.

Cattle breeding

So, the production of meat hit 298,100 metric tons (live weight), milk - 1.3 million metric tons, 16,000 metric tons of wool and 1.02 million eggs in January-August 2015.

Meat production increased by 1.1 percent, milk - by 4.3 percent, wool - 1.7 percent, eggs - by 0.1 percent in the country during this period compared to January-August 2014.

Production of meat, milk and eggs, thousand tons

products

2015

2014

meat (live weight)

298,1

294,9

milk

1302,3

1249,0

eggs, mln pieces

1019,4

1017,9

Source: Azerbaijani State Statistics Committee

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