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Abkhazia

Georgian aid for Abkhazia’s ravaged farmlands has mysteriously disappeared

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•6 min read

An agricultural pest — the stink bug — has ravaged crops across western Georgia and Abkhazia this year. Aid was sent to Abkhazia by the government in Tbilisi, but people in Gali have seen no sign of these pesticides, which might possibly have saved their livelihoods. [Read in Georgian — სტატია ქართულ ენაზე] An agricultural pest The presence of the brown marmorated stink bug was first recorded in western Georgia in 2015, but significant damage to hazelnut crops was not caused until 2016

Agriculture

Despite a bountiful harvest — peaches are rotting in eastern Georgia

by Volodymyr Soboliev

•5 min read

Eastern Georgia’s Kakheti region is enjoying a bountiful harvest of peaches this summer. But far from celebrating their success, farmers say their peaches are being left to rot, and question why no one is helping them in their dire situation. Misha, a farmer from the village of Chumlaki in Georgia’s eastern Kakheti region, couldn’t sell his peach harvest this summer. He, like many other farmers, decided to distill brandy from the remaining pomace. There was a great peach and nectarine