Exchange visit to raspberry plantation

On July 27, 2017 thirteen members representing five groups of raspberry producers from Ashotavan, Bnunis and Tasik villages, and ten members of “Pasture Users Union of Ttujur Community” Consumer Cooperative visited the raspberry garden in the village of Alapars in Kotayk region with representatives of Shen NGO to get acquainted with raspberry production. Farmer Tigran Ghazaryan has presented to the participants the history of his business, introduced the peculiarities of raspberriy production, the features of the different varieties of raspberry as well as the comparative indicators of profitability. This exchange visit was organized in the framework of the "Promoting Inclusive Horticultural Value Chains in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Moldova" project funded by IFAD.