With the financing of the Austrian Development Agency and the support of the "Center for Agribusiness and Rural Development" foundation, on February 11-12, the two-day educational and informative training "Media for the development of agriculture" was organized in Aghveran for about 20 journalists representing 19 different media channels. The participants got acquainted with the "Animal Identification and Registration in RA" project, as well as with other state programs implemented by the RA Government in the field of agriculture.

Klaus Kaper, the head of the Yerevan office of the Austrian Development Agency, Arman Khojoyan, the Deputy Minister of Economy of the RA, Garnik Hovhannisyan, the director of the "Agricultural Services Center" SNCO, and Melanya Karapetyan, the head of the Department of Food Safety and Veterinary Medicine of the Ministry of Economy of the RA, were also present at the training.    

The participants got acquainted with the "Animal Identification and Registration in RA" project, as well as with other state programs implemented by the RA Government in the field of agriculture.

On the second day of the training, the journalists had the opportunity to get acquainted practically with the "Animal Identification and Registration in RA" project implemented by the Government, visiting Hrazdan veterinary and agricultural service center and Smart farm in the Aramus community. The press tour was implemented by the Armenian PR Association.

*The “Animal Identification and Registration” project is implemented with the funding of the Government of the Republic of Armenia by the "Agricultural Services Center" SNCO. The Austrian Development Agency provides financial and technical support to the project through the CARD Foundation.