(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 6. A delegation
from Türkiye visited Azerbaijan to provide support in the field of
plant health in the context of the FAO-Türkiye Partnership
Programme (FTPP) from September 3 through September 5, Trend
reports.
The delegation consisted of representatives of the FAO
Subregional Office for Central Asia and experts from the General
Directorate of Agricultural Research and Food and Control of the
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
During the mission, a two-day workshop was held with the
participation of experts from the Azerbaijan Food Security Agency
and the Agrarian Services Agency of the Ministry of Agriculture and
Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.
The workshop included a series of technical meetings in which
the experts shared their knowledge, visited greenhouses, and
contributed to a review of plant health emergency preparedness and
management in Azerbaijan. In addition, key documents related to
plant health were prepared by the Azerbaijan Food Safety Agency
working in collaboration with FAO offices in Baku and Ankara.
Several of the visits and meetings focused in particular on the
promotion of local, cost-effective, and proven development
solutions tailored specifically to vegetable virus disease
outbreaks.
The experts also shared their knowledge and experience of the
assessment of institutional structures, capacities, strategies, and
programs; emergency management, prevention, and response action
plans; pest risk analysis; and the review and verification of
Azerbaijan's strategic program and emergency plan for the
prevention and management of wheat rust diseases, prepared in the
context of the CAC-Rust project.
The two-day workshop was opened by Elkhan Mikayilov, Head of
Administration of AFSA; Bariz Mehdiyev, Assistant FAOR; Hakan
Kalender, Agricultural Counsellor of the Turkish Embassy in Baku;
and Fazil Dusunceli, Agricultural Officer, FAOSEC. During the
workshop, Hasenem Ertaş, a plant health expert from the General
Directorate of Food and Control, along with Pelin Keleş Öztürk and
Ferhan Morca from the General Directorate of Agricultural Research,
provided training sessions.
At the conclusion of the event, the participants agreed that the
workshop and visits had established the groundwork for future
collaboration in plant health and food security between Türkiye and
Azerbaijan.
The objectives of the FAO-Türkiye Partnership Programmes are to
provide support to ensure food security, rural poverty reduction,
and sustainable forest management; combat desertification; and
preserve ecosystems in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, and other
countries of mutual interest.
Established in 2007, the first phase of the FAO-Türkiye
Partnership Programme on Food and Agriculture (FTPP) has benefited
from trust fund contributions totaling USD 10 million, financed by
the Government of Türkiye and represented by the Ministry of
Agriculture and Forestry. During the first phase of the program, 28
projects were implemented in 16 countries between 2009 and
2015.
In 2014, Türkiye and FAO commenced the second phase of the FTPP
along with the first phase of the FAO-Türkiye Forestry Partnership
Programme (FTFP) with additional funding of USD 20 million,
bringing Türkiye's total contribution to $30 million.
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