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proeqtis - ,,axalgazrda mewarme” prezentacia

Presentation of Young Entrepreneur Project Dimitri Kumsishvili met with President of Asia Infrastructure and Investment Bank dimitri qumsiSvili - arabTa gaerTianebuli saamiroebis ekonomikis ministrTan yuris qveynebTan gasaformebeli Tavisufali vaWrobis SeTanxmeba ganvi xi le T

Minister of Economy of United Arab Emirates hails Georgia’s openness for foreign investments ivnisSi saqarTvelos Cin eT is de le ga ci a e stumreba

Delegation of China will visit Georgia in June saqarTvelo da CineTi Tavisufali vaWrobis SeTanxebis implementaciisTvis qmediTi nabijebis gadadgmaze SeTanxmdnen

Georgia and China agreed to take effective steps to implement the Free Trade Agreement a gr o s a s u r s a T o p r o du qciis eqsporti 35%-iT gaiza r d a

Exports of Georgian Agricultural Products Grew by 35%

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giorgi margvelaSvili qveynis winaSe arsebul yvela problemas, pasuxobs ganaTleba da is institutebi, romlebic qmnian axal codnas

President Margvelashvili: Education and Institutions That Create New Knowledge Base Are Solutions to All Problems of Georgia

saqarTvelos prezidentma giorgi margvelaSvilma, xelisuflebis warmomadgenlebTan erTad, kavkasiis universitetis axali Senoba gaxsna. prezidentma universitetis axali Senoba daaTvaliera, romelic 1909 wels aSenda da romelic kavkasiis universitetma ramdenime wlis win SeiZina. prezidents axali Senoba universitetis reqtorma kaxa Sengeliam da universitetis ucxoelma damaarseblebma daaTvalierebines. giorgi margvelaSvilma sazeimo RonisZiebaze sityviT gamosvlisas universitetis studentebs, profesorebsa da mis damfuZneblebs axali, Tanamedrove saswavlo sivrcis Seqmna miuloca da warmatebuli saswavlo procesi usurva: “guliTadad gilocavT 20 wlis iubiles da am axal STambeWdav nabijs Tqveni universitetis biografiaSi. namdvilad maxsovs pirveli dReebi Tqveni moRvaweobis, roca kolegebi viyaviT da erTad vfiqrobdiT rogor gangveviTarebina Cveni qveynis faqtobrivad yvela problemaze pasuxis gamcemi struqtura - ganaTlebis keraa. radgan realurad, SeiZleba iTqvas, rom yvela im problemas, romelic Cvens winaSe dgas pasuxobs swored ganaTleba da pasuxoben is institutebi, romelic qmnian axal ganaTlebas, qmnian axal codnas. minda, qarTul sazogadoebas mivuloco es mniSvnelovani da axali SenaZeni. am mniSvnelovani tradiciis gagrZeleba, romelic kavkasiis universitetis saxels ukavSirdeba. studentebs minda mogilocoT axali mSvenieri Senoba da minda giTxraT, rom bevri msmenia, swored, kavkasiis universitetis studentebis gansakuTrebuli niWierebis Sesaxeb, radgan dedaCemi, romelic aq

The President of Georgia, H.E. Giorgi Margvelashvili together with Government officials has opened a new building of the Caucasus University. Rector Kakha Shengelia and foreign founders of the University have guided President Margvelashvili through the new building. President Margvelashvili has congratulated the University students, professors and founders on the opening of the new, modern study space and wished them a successful educational process. “I wholeheartedly congratulate you on the 20th anniversary and on this impressive historic advancement. I remember the first days of your activities when we were colleagues and together thought how to advance the Georgian educational base, a structure that is a solution to all the problems. It could be said that education and institutions that create new knowledge base are solutions to all the problems facing Georgia. I would like to congratulate the Georgian society on this important new acquisition. I congratulate students on opening this wonderful new building. I would like to note that I have heard a lot about the special talent of the students studying at this University. As you are aware, my mother is a professor

aswavlis da xSirad miyveba ramdenad kargi studentebi xarT da rogori mowodebiT xarT codnis mimarT”, - ganacxada giorgi margvelaSvilma.

at this University and she often tells me about their talent and distinguished attitude towards studies,” President Margvelashvili said.

proeqtis - ,,axalgazrda mewarme” prezentacia

Presentation of Young Entrepreneur Project

mogesalmebiT, mivesalmebi axalgazrda fermerebs! CemTvis Zalian sasixarulo dRea, vinaidan Zalian mniSvnelovan programas viwyebT. minda vTqva, rom axalgazrdebis CarTuloba Cveni qveynis aRmSeneblobis saqmeSi aris uaRresad mniSvnelovani. Cvens qveyanas sWirdeba Tamami ideebi, Tamami gadawyvetilebebi da swored, Tqveni asakia is asaki, rodesac es yvelaze advilia. araordinaruli ideebi gvWirdeba da Cven mivesalmebiT sxvadasxva platformebis Seqmnas, sadac axalgazrdebs saSualeba eqnebaT organizebulad miawodon TavianTi azri xelisuflebas, uzrunvelyon TavianTi CarTuloba marTvis saqmeSi, rac CvenTvis aris uaRresad mniSvnelovani. yvelaferi, princi pSi rasac Cven vakeTebT, maT Soris es programac aris imisken gamiznuli, rom axalgazrdebs hqondeT saSualeba wamoiwyon sakuTari biznesi, ganaxorcielon, realizacia gaukeTon sakuTar potencials da CvenTvis uaRresad mniSvnelovania is, rom dRes Cen viwyebT programas, romelic zustad am niSazea gansazRvruli. es aris gaTvlili 18-dan 40 wlamde adamianebze, romlebsac aqvT aqtiuri ideebi, gansakuTrebiT, es aris regionebze gaTlili da CvenTvis mniSvnelovania, rom ekonomikis ganviTarebis simZimis centri gadanawildes qveynis sxvadasxva regionze. amitom aris, swored, fermerebis CarTuloba am programaSi gansakuTrebiT xazgasmuli da ramdenadac me vici, aseve, gaTvaliswinebulia, 20 % ara sasoflo-sameurneo biznesebic, magram regionebSi iqneba es waxalisebuli. Cven araerTi nabiji gadavdgiT imisaTvis, rom axalgazrdobam sakuTari potencialis realizacia ukeT moaxdinos da CvenTvis Zalian mniSvnelovania, rom ganaTlebis sistemis mimdinare reforma aris im mimarTulebis, rom axalgazrdebma miiRon is codna da gamocdileba, romelic dRes qveyanas yvelaze metad sWirdeba. Cven ar unda gvqondes sistema, romelic awarmoebs yovelwliurad umuSevar adamianebs, anu im profesiis adamianebs, romlis saWiroebac qveyanaSi im raodenobiT ar aris da swored, is nabijebi, romlebic dRes idgmeba, erTi mxriv, es aris xarisxze zewola, anu xarisxis gazrda umaRles saswavlo dawesebulebebSi da meore mxriv, garkveuli maregulirebeli berketebis gamoyeneba im profesiebisTvis, romelic dRes qveyanas Zalian sWirdeba. es gansakuTrebiT aris teqnikuri profesiebi, soflad arsebuli teqnologiebis mcodne adamianebi da a.S. ra Tqma unda, sistemis ganviTarebac aranakleb mniSvnelovania da amazec saxelmwifo gansakuTrebul aqcents akeTebs. garda profesiul-saganmanaTleblo mimarTulebisa, saxelmwifom gadadga Zalian bevri nabiji imisaTvis, rom damwyeb biznesmens, damwyeb mewarmes hqondes gansakuTrebuli pirobebi Seqmnili. swored, amisTvis iyo „startap saqarTvelo”, anu damwyebi biznesis dafinansebis proeqti da Cven araerTi

Greetings! I welcome young farmers! It is a very exciting day for me because today we are launching a very important program. Allow me to state that the engagement of youths in our country’s building is extremely important. Our country needs bold ideas, daring decisions, and your age is the best age for it. We need unconventional ideas, and we welcome the creation of different platforms enabling youths to organize and deliver their opinions to the authorities, to ensure their involvement in governance, which is extremely important to us. Actually, everything that we do, including this program, is designed to enable young people to start their own businesses and fulfil their potential. It is very important to us that today we are launching a program targeting this very niche. The program targets persons 18-40 years of age with active ideas, especially in the regions, and it is very important to ensure that the center of economic development’s mass be distributed among different regions of the country. This is why farmers’ engagement in this program is accentuated, and as far as I now, its 20% is allocated to nonagricultural businesses. Still, incentives will target the regions heavily. We have taken more than one step to give young people greater opportunities for fulfilling their potential. It is very important to us that the ongoing education reform aims to provide youths with the knowledge and experience that the country needs most. We do not need a system that produces unemployed people every year, that is, people specializing in professions demanded in the country for a lesser extent. The steps we are taking today are about emphasis on quality, on one hand, in other words, enhancing quality in schools of higher education. On the other hand, it is about applying certain regulatory mechanisms to highly demanded professions in the country, especially technical professions, technology experts in the rural areas, and so on. Of course, developing the system is equally important, and the state pays special attention to it. Besides professional education, the state has taken numerous steps to provide startups, novice entrepreneurs, with special conditions. This is why Startup Georgia, a project financing startup businesses, was launched,

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warmatebuli proeqti vixileT am dafinansebis farglebSi. aseve, swored amisTvisaa programa “awarmoe saqarTveloSi”, Tavisi sxvadasxva komponentiT, maT Soris - warmoebis mimarTulebiT, mcire sastumroebis mimarTulebiT, saqarTveloSi kinogadaRebis industriis ganviTarebis mimarTulebiT da ra Tqma unda, soflis meurneobis araerTi programa, rogoric aris danerge momavali, agrokreditis programa, samacivre da sasawyobe meurneobebis ganviTarebis programa da a.S., romlebic pirdapiraa mimarTuli soflad cxovrebis donis gaumjobesebisken, rac aris Cveni xelisuflebis Zalian mniSvnelovani amocana. dRes viwyebT proeqts „axalgazrda mewarme”, romelic gaxlavT Zalian mniSvnelovani axali talRa mcire da damwyebi sawarmoebis ganviTarebisTvis. programis SemuSavebaSi saqarTvelos xelisuflebas daexmara daniis xelisufleba, daniis mTavroba da aseve, soflis meurneobis ganviTarebis saerTaSoriso fondi (IFAD). me minda, maT madloba gadavuxado am uaRresad mniSvnelovani daxmarebisTvis. programa iTvaliswinebs 18-dan 40 wlamde damwyebi mewarmeebis waxalisebas, 40 %-iani grantia gaTvaliswinebuli, aseve gaTvaliswinebulia sakonsultacio daxmareba da ra Tqma unda, danarCeni dafinansebis moZieba mewarmeebs SeuZliaT ukve im danarCeni programebis meSveobiT, romlebic me CamogiTvaleT. ase rom, ikvreba erTi didi wredi, romlis sxvadasxva komponentebi sxvadasxva kuTxiT gansazRvrulia damwyebi da mcire mewarmeebis daxmarebisTvis. me darwmunebuli var, rom es programa iqneba Zalian warmatebuli. aseve, minda giTxraT rom mTavroba da ekonomikuri gundi muSaobs Zalian aqtiurad, raTa mcire da saSualo mewarmeebisTvis kapitalSi ineqciebis waxaliseba moxdes, anu is proeqtebi, romlebic iqneba komerciulad sicocxlisunariani da romlebsac kapitalis, anu Tanamonawileobis nakleboba eqnebaT. am mimarTulebiTac vmuSaobT da es iqneba kidev erTi damatebuli talRa. yvela es proeqti qmnis im garemos, im ekosistemas, romelSic axalgazrda faqtobrivad yvelanairad iqneba waxalisebuli da yvela piroba iqneba Seqmnili rom gaxdes ara dasaqmebuli, aramed damsaqmebeli. araferi maqvs im adamianebis sawinaaRmdego, romlebic arian dasaqmebulebi, daqiravebuli moxeleebi, Tumca Cvens qveyanas sasicocxlod sWirdeba mniSvnelovani SemoqmedebiTi energia, romelic sul sxva dinamikas moitans Cveni qveynis ekonomikuri ganviTarebisa. minda, soflis meurneobis saministros madloba gadavuxado, aseve, piradad levan daviTaSvils da proeqtebis marTvis saagentos, romlis farglebSic ganxorcieldeba am proeqtis momsaxureba. minda, warmateba gisurvoT pirvel rigSi Tqven, Cemo axalgazrdebo. Tqven rom giyurebT da am energias vxedav, damerwmuneT, Cven gvemateba is aucilebeli energia, rac saSualebas gvaZlevs kidev ufro meti nabiji gadavdgaT imisaTvis, rom Tqven gaxdeT warmatebuli adamianebi cxovrebaSi da erTad SevqmnaT is warmatebuli, swrafad mzardi dinamiuri ekonomika, romelic Cvens qveyanas gaiyvans ganviTarebis sruliad, Tvisobrivad, sxva safexurze. didi madloba, warmatebebs gisurvebT!

and we have seen many successful projects under this financing. Similarly, the same goal is pursued by the Produce in Georgia program and its numerous components, especially the directions of manufacturing, Georgian cinematography’s development, small hotel, as well as agricultural programs, of course, such as Plant the Future, the Agro Credit Program, the program for the development of refrigeration and warehouse farming, and others, which directly aim to improve the standards of living in the rural areas, and that is one task our Government prioritizes. Today, we are launching the Young Entrepreneur project, a crucially important wave of the development of small and startup enterprises. The Government of Denmark and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) assisted the Government of Georgia in the development of this program. I would like to thank them for their invaluable help.The program involves incentives for startup entrepreneurs 18-40 years of age, including 40% grants, consultative assistance, and the remaining financing entrepreneurs can attract using the programs I listed earlier. Thus, a full circle is created, and its different components are designed to assist startup and small entrepreneurs in different ways.I strongly believe that this program will prove tremendous success. In addition, I would like to inform you that the Government and the economic team are actively working to promote capital injections for SMEs, those commercially viable but lacking in capital, that is, participation. We are working on this direction as well, which will turn out to be yet another successful wave. All these projects put in place an environment, an ecosystem, in which youths will be promoted in every way, and they will have all necessary conditions to become employers as opposed to employees. I have nothing against those employed, employees, but our country is in extreme need of considerable creative energy that will bring about totally different dynamics in our country’s economic development. I would like to thank the Ministry of Agriculture and Levan Davitashvili personally, along with the Projects Management Agency, as support for this project is ensured under this agency. First of all, I would like to wish success to you, our young people! Trust me, by looking at you, and seeing your energy, we draw necessary energy enabling us to take more steps and to put in place the rapidly growing and dynamic economy which will advance our country to a brand new qualitative level of development. Thank you very much! Please accept my wishes for success!

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dimitri qumsiSvili aziis infrastruqturisa da investiciebis bankis prezidents Sexvda

Dimitri Kumsishvili met with President of Asia Infrastructure and Investment Bank

CineTis saxalxo respublikaSi samuSao vizitis farglebSi, saqarTvelos pirveli vice-premieri, ekonomikisa da mdgradi ganviTarebis ministri dimitri qumsiSvili aziis infrastruqturis da investiciebis bankis prezidents Zin licuns da bankis umaRles menejments Sexvda.Sexvedraze saubari Seexo im proeqtebis mimdinareobas, romelTac saqarTveloSi aziis infrastruqturisa da investiciebis banki axorcielebs, agreTve dagegmil da ganxilvis procesSi arsebul proeqtebs. maT Soris, yuradReba gamaxvilda nenskrahesis, eleqtrogadamcemi xazebis, aRmosavleTisa da dasavleTis magistralis mSeneblobis proeqtebi, aseve baTumis SemovliTi gzis proeqtze, romelic aseve aziis infrastruqturis da investiciebis bankis dafinansebiT xorcieldeba.Sexvedraze mxareebma yvela am proeqtze gacvales informacia. aRiniSna, rom proeqtebi Seferxebis gareSe mimdinareobs.Sexvedras aseve daeswrnen ekonomikisa da mdgradi ganviTarebis ministris moadgileebi giorgi CerqeziSvili da genadi arvelaZe, agreTve ss „saqarTvelos rkonigzis“ generaluri direqtori daviT feraZe.

Dimitri Kumsishvili the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia met with President of Asia Infrastructure and Investment Bank Dzin Litsun and the Bank’s senior management within the framework of working visit to the People’s Republic of China. The meeting focused on the ongoing projects implemented by the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank in Georgia as well as on the projects which are in the planning and review process. Among them the attention focused on the projects construction of Nenskrahes, power lines, East and West Highway as well as the Batumi Bypass Road Project which is financed by the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank. It was noted that the projects are underway without delay. The meeting was also attended by the Deputy Ministers of Economy and Sustainable Development Giorgi Cherkezishvili and Genadi Arveladze as well as Director General of JSC “Rochester” Davit Peradze.

dimitri qumsiSvili - arabTa gaerTianebuli saamiroebis ekonomikis ministrTan yuris qveynebTan gasaformebeli Tavisufali vaWrobis SeTanxmeba ganvixileT

Minister of Economy of United Arab Emirates hails Georgia’s openness for foreign investments

arabTa gaerTianebul saamiroebSi vizitis farglebSi, saqarTvelos pirveli vice-premieri, ekonomikisa da mdgradi ganviTarebis ministri dimitri qumsiSvili saamiroebis ekonomikis ministrs, sultan bin saeed al mansuris Sexvda. pirveli vice-

Dimitri Kumsishvili, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, met with Sultan Bin Saeed Al Mansuri, the Minister of Economy of United Arab Emirates.

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premieris TqmiT, yuris qveynebTan gasaformebeli Tavisufali vaWrobis SeTanxmeba iyo is erT-erTi ZiriTadi da mniSvnelovani sakiTxi, romelic arabTa gaerTianebuli saamiroebis ekonomikis ministrTan Sexvedrisas ganixiles. „garda amisa, visaubreT vaWrobis moculobis gazrdaze, romelic Cven or qveynas Soris arsebobs, aseve investiciebis moculobaze, romelic arabTa gaerTianebuli saamiroebidan aris Semosuli saqarTveloSi. dReis mdgomareobiT, es ricxvi 800 milion dolars aWarbebs da imedi gvaqvs, rom investiciebi momavalSi gagrZeldeba. aseve Zalian mniSvnelovania vizitorebis raodenoba, romelic Semoyavs arabTa gaerTianebuli saamiroebis aviakompaniebs - „flai dubais“ da „ear arabias“, romelTc SarSan 325 aTasze meti stumari Camoiyvana saqarTveloSi”, - ganacxada dimitri qumsiSvilma. amasTan erTad, ministrma xazi gausva saqarTvelosa da arabTa gaerTianebul saamiroebs Soris investiciebis dacvis SeTnxmebas, romelic ZalaSi 8 aprils Sevida. dimitri qumsiSvilma imedi gamoTqva, rom es SeTanxmeba kidev ufro meTi investiciebis mozidvis SesaZleblobas mogvcems.

The meeting was held within the frameworks of Kumsishvili’s visit to the United Arab Emirates. According to the first Vice Premier, future free trade agreement with the Gulf countries was one of the main and important issues discussed at the meeting with the Minister of Economy of the United Arab Emirates. “We have talked about the increase in trade volume between the two countries, as well as the amount of the investments that comes from the United Arab Emirates. As of today, this figure exceeds USD 800 million and we hope that investments will continue in the future. The number of the visitors, transported by air companies - Fly Dubai and Air Arabia (they brought more than 325 thousand visitors to Georgia last year), is also of utmost importance,” Dimitri Kumsishvili said. Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansuri underlined the development of relations between the two countries in recent years. “I am fascinated and appreciate the changes that are being implemented in your country and your country’s openness to attract investments, “said Sulthan bin Saeed Al Mansur.

ivnisSi saqarTvelos CineTis delegacia e stu m re b a

Delegation of China will visit Georgia in June

CineTisa da saqarTvelos saxmeleTo transportis sferoSi TanamSromlobaze SeTanxmebis gaformebis dasrulebis mizniT ivnisSi saqarTvelos CineTis delegacia estumreba, - aRniSnul SeTanxmebas miaRwies saqarTvelos pirvelma vice-premierma dimitri qumsiSvilma da CineTis transportis ministrma li siaopinma. Sexvedra CineTis dedaqalaq pekinSi dimitri qumsiSvilis vizitis farglebSi Catarda. Sexvedraze yuradReba gamaxvilda im garemoebaze, rom qveynebs Soris mimdinareobs molaparakeba saavtomobilo transportis sferoSi TanamSromlobis ganviTarebaze. CineTis ministris gancxadebiT, ivnisSi saqarTveloSi delegacia CineTidan Sexvedrebs gamarTavs qarTuli mxaris warmomadgenlebTan da moamzadebs winadadebebs SeTanxmebasTan dakavSirebiT.

delegation of China will visit Georgia In June to complete the agreement on cooperation in the field of land transport. The agreement was reached by First Vice-Premier of Georgia Dimitri Kumsishvili and Chinese Transport Minister Lee Siaopin. The meeting was held in the framework of the Dimitri Kumsishvili’s visit in Beijing, China. The meeting focused on the fact that negotiations on the development of cooperation in the field of motor transport are being held between the countries. According to the Chinese Minister in June the delegation of China will hold meetings with representatives of the Georgian side and will prepare proposals on the agreement.

saqarTvelo da CineTi Tavisufali vaWrobis SeTanxebis implementaciisTvis qmediTi nabijebis gadadgmaze SeTanxmdnen

Georgia and China agreed to take effective steps to implement the Free Trade Agreement

saqarTvelosa da CineTs Soris Tavisufali vaWrobis SeTanxmebis implementaciisTvis qmediTi nabijebis gadadgmis sakiTxze SeTanxmdnen saqarTvelos pirveli vice-premieri, ekonomikisa da mdgradi ganviTarebis ministri dimitri qumsiSvili da CineTis komerciis ministri Wun Sani Sexvedraze, romelic

The first Vice-Premier of Georgia, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Dimitri Kumsishvili and Chinese Commerce Minister Chun Shan agreed on the steps taken to implement the Free Trade Agreement between Georgia and China at the meeting Which was held in the capital of China,

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CineTis dedaqalaq pekinSi gaimarTa. Sexvedraze aRiniSna, rom qarTulma da Cinurma kompaniebma srulad unda aiTvison Tavisufali vaWrobis SeTanxmebiT gaTvaliwinebuli sargebeli, risTvisac orive mxare mniSvnelovan gadawyvetilebebs miiRebs. saqarTvelos pirveli vice-premieri dimitri qumsiSvili CineTis saxalxo respublikaSi samuSao vizitiT imyofeba, romlis drosac man gamarTa Sexvedrebi CineTis samTavrobo da saqmiani wreebis warmomadgenlebTan, agreTve moxsenebiT gamovida CineTis saxalxo bankisa da saerTaSoriso savaluto fondis mier organizebul maRali donis konferenciaze, romelic „sartyelisa da gzis“ iniciativis makroekonomikur da finansur platformebis ganxilvas mieZRvna.

Beijing. It was noted at the meeting that Georgian and Chinese companies should fully acquire the benefits of free trade agreement, for which both sides will make important decisions. First Vice Premier of Georgia Dimitri Kumsishvili was on a working visit to the People’s Republic of China during which he held meetings with representatives of China’s governmental and business circles and delivered a report At a high-level conference organized by the People’s Bank of China and the International Monetary Fund which was dedicated to reviewing macroeconomic and financial platforms of the “Girdle and road” initiative.

agrosasursaTo produqciis eqsporti 35%iT gaizarda

Exports of Georgian Agricultural Products Grew by 35%

garemos dacvisa da soflis meurneobis saministros operatiuli informaciis mixedviT, eqsportirebuli agrosasursaTo produqcia wina welTan SedarebiT TiTqmis 35%-iT gazrdilia.kerZod, 2018 wlis 1 aprilis CaTvliT eqsportirebulia 207.5 mln aSS dolaris Rirebulebis agrosasursaTo produqcia, rac 34.7%-iT metia 2017 wlis analogiur maCvenebelze (2017 wlis analogiur periodSi eqsportirebulia 154.0 mln aSS dolaris Rirebulebis agrosasursaTo produqcia). 2018 wlis 1 aprilis mdgomareobiT agrosasursaTo produqciis ZiriTadi saeqsporto bazrebs warmoadgens: ruseTi (52.2 mln dolari), evrokavSiri (42.6 mln dolari), azerbaijani (23.2 mln dolari), TurqeTi (22.2 mln dolari), ukraina (16.5 mln dolari) da yazaxeTi (11.1 mln dolari). operatiuli informaciis Tanaxmad, saangariSo periodSi agrosasursaTo produqciis eqsporti evrokavSiris qveynebSi 11.8 mln aSS dolariT (38.1%) gaizarda, rac ZiriTadad ganapiroba spirtiani sasmelebis, yurZnis naturaluri Rvinoebis da Txilis eqsportis zrdam, Sesabamisad, spirtiani sasmelebi 6.6 mln (121.7%), yurZnis naturaluri Rvinoebi 1.9 mln (61.7%) da Txili 1.6 mln (13.8%) aSS dolariT.

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According to the Ministry of Agriculture, in 2018 exports of agricultural exports increased compared with the previous year. As of April 1, 2018, the export amounted to $ 207.5 million, which is 35% more than in the same period of 2017 - then this figure was $ 154 million. The countries to which Georgia exports its agricultural products are Russia (52,2 million), the European Union (42,5 million), Azerbaijan (23,2 million), Turkey (22,2 million), Ukraine (16,5 million) and Kazakhstan (11, 1 million). During this period, exports to the EU increased by 38,12% or $ 11, 8 million mainly due to alcoholic beverages, wine and nuts. Wine tops the list of exported agricultural products ($ 41.9 million), followed by mineral drinks (32.2 million), alcoholic beverages (28.5 million) and nuts ($ 18.6 million).

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