There is no progress in the agriculture sector in Armenia. This is what President of the Farmers' Movement NGO Sargis Sedrakyan told journalists on 1 March.

The expert emphasized that this was due to the uncertain future of the state policy in this sector. “Villagers don’t know if they will receive fuel, seeds and fertilizers or not. In the past, regional governors and government officials were corrupt. Now they are simply incompetent,” Sedrakyan added.

The expert noted that half of the country’s arable lands aren’t cultivated and it’s not clear how the issue of management efficiency is going to be solved without the existence of a ministry for agriculture. He also complained that the government continues to enlarge communities just like the former government was doing and that this will make villagers become poverty-stricken

Through its plan for optimization of the state apparatus, the government has decided to join the Ministry of Agriculture with the Ministry of Economic Development and Investments, but the draft law on joining the ministries has not been discussed in parliament yet.