BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 14. Hazelnut growing is one of the priority areas for the development of the agricultural sector in Azerbaijan, Chairman of the Board of Agrarian Credit and Development Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture Seymur Movlayev said at the signing ceremony of an agreement on cooperation and coordination of activities between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and Agrarco LLC Azerbaijan, Trend reports.
According to him, to ensure the sustainable development of this sector, large-scale activities are being carried out in Azerbaijan to develop cooperation with a number of state and international structures.
"In order to revive this sector, we are working with the Food Safety Agency of Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Agriculture, also a number of international structures," Movlayev said.