YEREVAN. – There are 430,000 agriculturally-cultivated lands and 340,000 farms in Armenia. That is to say, 1.2-1.3 hectares of land falls to each farm, PM Tigran Sargsyan said Friday speaking at the Armenian State University of Economics. He added that such agricultural model cannot exist for long in the country.      

In his words, it is indispensable to increase and enlarge productivity, but there are serious challenges on the way. A total of 1.1 million people in Armenia are engaged in agriculture and their significant portion will become unemployed when productivity is increased and enlarged. That is why the Government seeks to create new jobs in the villages, and by way of designing an agricultural and rural development concept, so that the villagers would not leave their villages and move to capital city Yerevan.       

Also, community enlargement, farm enlargement, and cooperation development activities are simultaneously conducted in Armenia.