The Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance has revealed 6 new cases of detecting tomato moth (Tuta absoluta (Povolny)), which is a quarantine object for the Eurasian Economic Union’s member states, during quarantine phytosanitary control (surveillance) of Azerbaijani tomatoes, Trend reports on Jan.22 referring to the service.

The Food Safety Agency (FDA) of Azerbaijan is studying the issue in connection with the decision of Kazakhstan to ban the import of tomatoes from Azerbaijan, a source in the agency told Trend on Jan.22.

The restrictive measures introduced by Kazakhstan on the import of tomatoes from Azerbaijan are temporary, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Agriculture told Trend.

The MPs will review the situation in the Azerbaijani territories liberated from occupation, as well as discuss important issues in connection with the development of the agricultural sector in these territories, Trend reports.

Azerbaijan plans to involve farmers, possessing 10 hectares or more lands, in the agrochemical soil analysis from 2021, a source at the Ministry of Agriculture told Trend.

In order to simplify the procedure for creating production cooperatives in the field of agriculture, a model charter has been developed in Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Agriculture told Trend.

A 1,037,507 hectare-area is planned to be plowed in Azerbaijan this year, 564,793 hectares of that area are irrigated lands, 472,714 hectares - non-irrigated lands, the Azerbaijani Agriculture Ministry told Trend on Dec. 18.

The autumn plowing was scheduled to be on over 1 million hectares of land in Azerbaijan this year, the Ministry of Agriculture of Azerbaijan told Trend.

The restriction on the import of vegetables from Azerbaijan will negatively affect Russia’s Krasnoyarsk food market, Marketing Director of the Krasny Yar chain of supermarkets Viktor Bakhov said, Trend reports with reference to sibnovosti.ru.

Around 5,623 farmers and entrepreneurs received loans and incentives for agriculture from the Agrarian Credit and Development Agency of Azerbaijan from January through November 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture told Trend.