The current and future potential of agriculture in Azerbaijan allows to increase the share of value added, produced in this sphere, in GDP from the current 5.4 percent to 25-30 percent.
To effectively use this potential, firstly it is necessary to achieve comprehensive development of agriculture, identify priority areas for agricultural development, implement measures for their development, produce competitive products through the use of innovative technologies and thus ensure food security at the expense of local production as well as gain access to foreign markets. Particularly, there is a need to produce agricultural machinery and equipment in this field.
Using additional 100-200,000 hectares will enable to significantly increase grain production, which would be a great contribution to ensuring grain needs of the population at the expense of local production.
According to State Statistics Committee, in January-April 2011, agricultural production in Azerbaijan increased by 5.2 percent, including crop production - by 10.5 percent, livestock production - 5 percent compared to the same period of last year.
The spring field work continued in the country in April and Sowing of spring plants was conducted in an area of 260,700 hectares as of May 1. The area under crops increased by 12.3 percent compared with last year.
Sowing of spring plants in 2011, ha
2011 |
2010 |
2011/2010, % |
|
Total sowing |
260720 |
232219 |
112,3 |
Including - grain |
20933 |
20468 |
102,3 |
Oats |
1230 |
1284 |
95,8 |
Brown rice from the husk |
514 |
486 |
105,8 |
Corn |
14550 |
14355 |
101,4 |
Sunflower |
6077 |
5149 |
118,0 |
Sugar beet |
4732 |
6994 |
67,7 |
Cotton |
30229 |
9554 |
3 р. |
Potatoes |
53327 |
51482 |
103,6 |
Tobacco |
550 |
531 |
103,6 |
Vegetables |
48630 |
49265 |
98,7 |
Melon and water melon |
20072 |
17794 |
112,8 |
One-year plants |
1254 |
1011 |
124,0 |
Many-year plants |
56924 |
54747 |
104,0 |
Rhizocarpous |
148 |
128 |
115,7 |
Source: State Statistics Committee
In the field of livestock, in January-April 2011 the number of cattle increased 1.2 percent and reached 2.65 million, sheep and goats - by 0.5 percent - to 8.64 million.
During the reporting period, there were produced133,000 tonsof meatin live weight , 497,800 tons of milk , 343.7 millionunits ofchicken eggs .
Production of cattle-breeding (in ths tons)
Products |
2011 |
2010 |
Compared to 2010, % |
Meat (alive) |
133,0 |
125,9 |
105,7 |
Milk |
497,8 |
460,7 |
108,1 |
Egg |
343,7 |
399,6 |
86,0 |
Source: State Statistics Committee
According to State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan, in January-April 2011, the total agricultural production amounted to 676.6 million manat. Forestry and fishing enterprises of the country during the reporting period of 2011 produced products in amount of 392,900 manat and 56,100 manat respectively.
Factual prices of the products of the agricultural, forestry, fishery and hunting economies in Azerbaijan, in ths manat
2011 |
2010 |
|
In total, including |
677 018,2 |
567 123,7 |
Agriculture |
676 569,2 |
566 631,4 |
Forestry |
392,9 |
442,3 |
Fishery |
56,1 |
50,0 |