BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 5
By Fidan Babayeva – Trend:
Azertutun LLC, a subsidiary of Azerbaijan Industrial Corporation OJSC, plans to sow Virginia tobacco at more than 1,500 hectares of land in Zaqatala, Balakan, Gakh and Sheki districts in north-western Azerbaijan in 2020, Trend reports on June 5 referring to the source in the corporation.
“The tobacco planting campaign is currently nearing completion at the farms,” the source said. “To date, 1,418.6 hectares are sown with tobacco, which is 93.4 percent of the area planned to be covered this year.”
"The contracts for the production of tobacco have been signed with 191 farmers in the Azerbaijani districts this year,” the source said. “So far, the 1,492-hectare territory was plowed for planting tobacco. Fertilizers have been used on the 1,406-hectare area. To date, 520.56 hectares were sown with tobacco in Sheki, 275.2 hectares in Gakh, 383.1 hectares in Zagatala and 239.69 hectares in Balakan.”
The information on the product from such districts of the country as Yevlakh, Sheki, Gakh, Zagatala and Balakan are integrated through the Azexport website into the international electronic-trading platforms, including Allbiz, Agroserver and Tradekey, as part of the state program "On the development of tobacco and tobacco products in Azerbaijan".
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