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Minister Davitashvili: “Supply of food production has not and will not be affected”
“Throughout the last few days, pricing matter over grain and wheat has become highly argued; in fact, the world has witnessed somewhat inflation wave over food production for the first time in Autumn. Nevertheless, there are certain speculations over projections of an upcoming season. The latter does not occur only in 2020, however, it attracts greater attention during the pandemic. Amidst drought in several countries and decrease of harvest as an aftermath – we have witnessed how harvest in other countries have compensated the loss, thus, an overall picture of grain stock in the world does not look critical. Eurasian region has welcomed new supplier – Australia, which did not serve as a stable supplier for the Asian countries before; however, Australia did manage to enter our market and complement demand on Russian grain. We are undertaking a daily oversight of data for Georgia, as a safeguarding leverage not to allow suspension neither within Spring, nor in the future. We are in charge with the full swing of responsibilities, as we have demonstrated to be fluent in managing the process, amidst all the drawbacks. While we handle critical processes, our working style does not affect the population.
We fostered import throughout Spring, inspired by an extraordinary measure undertaken by the neighboring countries on setting quotas, limitations and certain barriers for an export, which could have potentially hindered our supply. As there is an absence of similar preconditions at the market, we have no intentions to reiterate our measures. We maintain a close look at grain and not the wheat itself, due to Georgia having a solid capacity to accelerate its production of wheat three or/and four times and fully supply the country. Frankly speaking, grain is at a core of our interest for ensuring the country with bread products” – Minister Davitashvili stated.