“One of our main tasks is to make our country more economical self-sufficient”, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili stated at the presentation of the 2030 Environmental Protection and Rural Development program by the Ministry of Environment Protection and Agriculture.

According to Garibashvili, the government has finished working on the initial document, and thematic discussions will kick off today.

PM thanked the Minister of Environment and Agriculture and his team for their work and wished them success.

“Georgian government made approximately GEL two billion-worth investment in this sector in the last eight years. In addition, the private sector has invested about GEL 1 billion. Based on our plan, the total volume of joint investment will amount to seven billion GEL in the coming years.

Our main goal should be to employ as many citizens as possible in the agriculture sector. We should make our country more self-sufficient. We have nothing against the import, but we can produce much more”, PM said.

The ministries present their visions within the government’s ten-year plan at the initiative of PM Irakli Garibashvili. The Ministry of Environment and Agriculture is the first ministry to deliver its ten-year concept.