YEREVAN. – The agricultural growth, which is recorded in Armenia so far in the current year, is impressive. 

Deputy Prime Minister Vache Gabrielyan, who is also the Minister of International Economic Integration and Reforms, stated the aforesaid at Thursday’s Cabinet meeting.

He recalled that the country’s economic activity index has increased by 4.2 percent in the first half of 2015.

Gabrielyan added that even though the economic growth dynamics will be released in September, the economic activity index shows that Armenia’s economy is moving toward a growth.

The deputy PM noted that the agriculture sector grew by 14.5 percent the first half of the year, and primarily on the account of growing crops. 

He added that a positive growth was also observed in the construction sector. In his words, although it grew by only 0.6 percent in the first half of 2015, the index of construction by means of the population has increased for the first time in several years.

Vache Gabrielyan also informed that Armenia’s industry grew by 5.1 percent, in the first quarter of the current year.