Events


New source of income for the farmers of the region of Tavush. New source of income for the farmers of the region of Tavush.
21-08-2008

Today an inauguration of centers of milk reception and procurement was held in the frontier rural communities of Varagavan, Tovuz and Nerqin Karmir Aghbyur. A conclusion of three sided memorandum of “Ashtarak-Kat” CJSC with international organization CARD (Center of agro business and rural development) and UNDP (UN development program) preceded this event in June, 2007. As a result a new project was created, which joined the three parties with one and the same aim directed to the rise of the level of the well-being of rural communities. During one year with the support of UNDP and CARD were rebuilt buildings given to the centers of milk reception, corresponding equipments and laboratory techniques were distributed, special machines for milk collection were acquired. So as in the communities of Varagavan, Tovuz and Nerqin Karmir Aghbyur so in the nearest villages nearly 1000 local farmsteads can use a new stable income in the name of buyer- “Ashtarak-Kat” CJSC, which already having its own system of milk procurement, created the biggest and stable market of milk realization in the world. Besides, in the frameworks of social corporative responsibilities of “Ashtarak-Kat” CJSC, the Company plans realization of social programs in the region of Tavush similar with those, which the Company realizes in all regions, where the own centers of raw material realization and procurement are situated.