On January 22 Director of the State Agency “Environmental project Implementation Unit” at the Ministry of Environment Armen Yesoyan, Deputy director Armen Khojoyan and Head of the Project Implementation and Monitoring department Rubik Shahazizyan took part in a two-day seminar within the frames of the project “Strengthening land based adaptation capacity in communities adjacent to protected areas in Armenia” on the topic “Training sustainable agriculture for farmer field schools of Dilijan and Urtsadzor” held at the Dzoraghbyur Green Training Center with the support of the EPIU and Outsource LLC.
As a result of the seminar, about 20 farmers from the communities of Dilijan, Urtsadzor, Hovk, Gandzasar acquired theoretical and practical knowledge about sustainable agriculture, strengthened their knowledge through specially designed tasks and exercises, got acquainted with success stories in sustainable agriculture, with international experience.