Wednesday, 29 September 2010
Government-National Farmers Union cooperation promotes agro-policy effectiveness
Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan received a National Farmers Union (NFU) delegation led by newly elected NFU Board chairwoman Rosa Tsarukyan.
Congratulating the newly elected management and stressing the need for ensuring a smooth takeover following the demise of its former chair, Tigran Sargsyan said: “We maintain traditional ties of cooperation with the NFU in an effort to enhance agriculture policy effectiveness in Armenia. We need to keep in touch with local farmers in order to get first-hand signals about the current state of affairs and the problems available in the countryside. This is why our undertakings should be made clear and acceptable to you since program efficiency will be easier to address through dialog and sustained interaction.”
Thanking the Prime Minister for reception, Rosa Tsarukyan briefed him on the staffing of those seven working groups approved at the August 31 sitting of the Board which will handle issues relating to agrarian policy and legislation, education-research-production linkages, pedigree-stock and seed breeding, selection, environmental protection, use of machinery and innovative technologies, public-private sector cooperation and so on.
Summing up the meeting, Tigran Sargsyan called the guests’ attention to Armenia’s sustained agricultural development program for 2010-2020 and assured of the government’s willingness to compliment the program with NFY proposals. The Prime Minister made a point of developing working group action plans as a prerequisite for successful cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture.
