For a year running, Civil Society Institute with financial support of OXFAM Georgia is engaged in implementation of Agriculture Project aiming to support acquisition of intensive agricultural production technologies, rising awareness of populations’ poorer layers engaged in Agriculture and development of agriculture skills in Samegrelo and Adjara regions.
With mentioned aims in mind farmer groups have been formed in Samegrelo and Adjara mountainous regions – potato growers and bee keepers groups in Adjara highlands; greenhouse keepers and herders’ groups in Samegrelo. Each group has been provided with appropriate start-up capital in the form of seeds, fertilizer, pesticides, bee-swarms, beehives and specific inventory.
Along with means of production, project provides for training in new technologies, consultations, connection with product market following harvesting and, in future, establishment of farmer associations and cooperatives.
As of today, the Project encompasses 232 beneficiaries in Adjara and 447 beneficiaries in Samegrelo.