2024-05-08 04:47:09
On June 20, Artsakh Republic State Minister Gurgen Nersisyan convened a consultation on ensuring food security and economic work under the existing conditions. This is reported by the Government of Azerbaijan.
The Minister of Agriculture, Georgi Hayriyan, presented the situation related to domestic food production, the possibilities of meat production, the preparatory works for the harvest of autumn crops and the production volumes of spring crops and greenhouse farms and related problems. Some other officials also made presentations.
The State Minister, referring to the fact that the limited humanitarian cargo transportation of Artsakh, which is under a six-month blockade, will be completely blocked by Azerbaijan from June 15, in particular, stated:
“Even though we are under siege in 2022 since December 12, however, during that time, with very few opportunities, we have been able to improve our food security level somewhat. Because of this, we now have a greater degree of resilience. There is no need to panic. Of course, we will have a feeling of shortage regarding this or that type of product, we already have a problem with sugar and oil. We have opportunities for critical moments, but we will not resort to their use now. We have a stable situation in terms of flour and other essential products.”
Gurgen Nersisyan, emphasizing proper communication with the public, emphasized that food safety is one of the main topics of public concern, but, on the other hand, it is not possible to talk about it in a completely open manner, because it is related to issues of security significance.
The Minister of State emphasized that the existing very limited fuel reserves should be used sparingly and when necessary. “For this purpose, we have reduced fuel consumption by the state system to almost zero, we will try to organize the work of public transport and agricultural works. Fuel for physical persons is mainly provided with issues related to health problems and subjecting each individual case to a separate study,” said Gurgen Nersisyan.
During the consultation, the problems of the created situation and ways of solving them were discussed. The Minister of State has given a number of instructions to quickly develop and implement such programs that will allow to collect all domestic resources, collect the domestic product and organize its equal distribution and realization.