BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 27. An event dedicated to the transfer of beekeeping farms to pastures of Azerbaijan’s Gubadli district [liberated from Armenian occupation in the 2020 second Karabakh war] was held in Nasimi village of Sabirabad district, the Ministry of Agriculture told Trend.
According to the ministry, the transfer is carried out on the basis of requests from Gubadli-born farmers, and a list of them has been prepared by the ministry.
The ministry said that the beekeepers were previously involved in trainings organized by the Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action. During the trainings, the farmers were introduced to the rules of conduct in areas contaminated by mines and unexploded ordnances.
The event in the village of Nasimi was attended by representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, the head of the Baku office of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) Fatih Yilmaz, the adviser on agriculture at the Turkish embassy Hakan Galender, the leadership of the Gubadli District Executive Power, the chairman of the Association of Beekeepers of Azerbaijan Badraddin Hasratov, and the head of the Association of Professional Beekeepers Elkhan Alakbarov.
Eldar Hasanov, head of the livestock organization and monitoring department of the Ministry of Agriculture, noted at the event that a pilot project to transfer beekeeping and sheep farms to the pastures of the liberated Kalbajar and Lachin districts has been successfully completed.
According to him, after analyzing the results of the project, the lands of the Gubadli district were added to the list of pastures to which beekeeping farms will be resettled this year.
Speaking at the event, Yilmaz noted that the Turkish agency is implementing projects in the field of agriculture in Azerbaijan, and within their framework, technical support was provided to beekeeping farms in various regions of the country.
Galender said that cooperation with Azerbaijan in the agrarian sector is developing in all directions and congratulated the natives of Gubadli on the transfer of their beekeeping farms to their home pastures.
This year, 38 bee farms are planned to be transferred to the Gubadli district. In total, 2,207 bee colonies will be resettled to Gubadli pastures, added the ministry.
