Modernization and Commercialization of Armenian Agriculture : Priorities for Sector Reform and Investment
The study focuses on themes and areas that have been identified as highly relevant for the modernization and commercialization of the agriculture sector. The study originally aimed to review: agricultural marketing, processing and exports; food sa...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/906301496947421057/Modernization-and-commercialization-of-Armenian-agriculture-synthesis-priorities-for-sector-reform-and-investment http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27989 |
| Summary: | The study focuses on themes and areas
that have been identified as highly relevant for the
modernization and commercialization of the agriculture
sector. The study originally aimed to review: agricultural
marketing, processing and exports; food safety; agricultural
“cooperation,” including farmers’ groups; agricultural
extension and agricultural insurance. This coverage was
subsequently modified to: (i) avoid repetition of existing
work; (ii) draw more extensively on WBG experience in other
countries; (iii) address relevant long-term issues more
directly; and (iv) to inform discussion of relevant issues
on which little information was available. The proposed
review of marketing, processing and exports, an area that
has already been well studied – was thus replaced with a
review of global experience in developing successful
export-led agricultural industries. Similarly, the study of
agricultural ‘cooperation,’ an area also widely studied, was
replaced with an analysis of agricultural land markets. Both
“cooperation” and land markets are highly pertinent to the
need to increase farm size to improve competitiveness. Land
markets offer a more structural, long-term response to this
problem, however, a response that so far has received little
attention. Finally, an analysis of public expenditure on
agriculture was added to provide insight into public
expenditure on long-term versus short-term sector
objectives. The review outlines the elements of a long-term
framework based on building a cluster-based, institutional
framework for horticultural exports, and suggests the need
to prioritize associated development of agricultural
extension, food safety, agricultural land markets and
agricultural risk management. Horticulture is viewed as a
vector for modernization and commercialization, due to its
demonstrated potential for exports. The proposed framework
would drive growth and change throughout the sector,
however, due to the sector-wide impact of support for
extension, food safety, land markets and risk management. |
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