Table 1 Distribution of Agricultural Land by Product

 

Product	Land occupied (thousand ha)
Cereals	379,0
Citrus	10,9
Fruit	60,0
Potato	34,0
Sunflower	40,0
Tea	40,0
Vegetables	40,0
Vineyards	61,3

 

In the 20th century, Georgia became a country of agro-industry, with well-developed agriculture and food industry and with a good level of production. More than half of its GDP came under the agro-industrial sector of the country; 47 - 48% of the main funds were accumulated within the sector and it employed 41 - 42% of the total population of Georgia.

 

Georgia used to be an important exporter of food and one of the main suppliers of vegetables, tea, citrus fruits, wine, mineral waters, brandy, canned and fresh vegetables and fruits to the markets of the former Soviet Union. In the second half of the 1980s, the Georgian share of the food market of the former Soviet Republics was 10 percent. The total amount of exported food products was 1.7 times more than imported ones. The country is now undertaking actions to re-establish this exporting.

 

Since independence in 1991 the country experienced many years of civil war and ethnic conflicts, with 260,000 people internally displaced.

 

However, Georgia's economy is still strongly linked to the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Approximately 50 percent of its trade is with the CIS.

 

Agriculture is a main source of income and employment for the majority of the population, accounting for more then 30 percent of GDP. Output in the sector is only about 40 percent of its 1990 level, but employment in the sector has doubled and it now accounts for over 50 percent of the total employment.

 

Land privatisation has focused on the small-scale (household/subsistence) sector with little real progress in restructuring the former large state farms. Land reform has resulted in the allotment of small parcels of land up to 1.25 hectares to each rural family and the lease, through district authorities, of state owned land to persons or legal entities, with the aim of creating a subsistence sector for small farmers and a market sector controlled by large leaseholders.

 

Private producers account for the significant share of fruit, vegetable and livestock production, when their share in wheat production is about two thirds of the total wheat production in the country. The bulk of the domestic wheat production is consumed on farms for food, seed or feed. Indications are that only 20 percent of domestic production of wheat is marketed.

 

Low yields, also as a result of poor infrastructure, inadequate access to credit for inputs and suitable machinery, and high costs associated with transport and marketing have had a negative impact on food production and the earning capacity of a significant proportion of the population and thus on household food security.

 

The state of irrigation and drainage systems is also a major constraint to increasing crop yields and the competitiveness of domestic produce with imports. More than 60 percent of grain, 60 percent of dairy products and 33 percent of meat consumed in the country are imported.

 

Agricultural production in Georgia dropped sharply in 2000 due to a serious drought. WFP/FAO Crop and Food Supply Assessment mission carried out in mid-August 2000 estimates that Georgia will face a severe food crisis due to the drought. This situation is being exacerbated by on-going serious economic problems.

 

After droughts, agricultural production showed a slight increase of 5.6 percent in 2001, however the share of agricultural output in GDP dropped from 21 percent in 2000 to 19.2 percent in 2001.

 

During the present year, USAID has launched a five year program, called Support Value Added Enterprise (SAVE) that will promote economic growth through expanded production and sales of added-value agricultural products on international markets. Through this program the US government will support agriculture development through market expansion, standards on organic food production, distribution, improved credit and whole-chain food distribution networks.

 

Key Agriculture Indicators.

 

Agricultural output per hectare of agricultural land and per capita (US $)

 

Year	Per 1 ha of agricultural land	Per capita
1990	1195	725
1995	481	272
1996	539	302
1997	583	328
1998	531	301
1999	435	285

Source: Georgian Agriculture 1999

 

Agriculture in GDP

 

1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
29,7					41,7	31,0	28,2	24,8	25,0	21,5	19,2
31,9	28,8	55,5	70,4	34,2	39,5	32,6

Source: State Department for Statistics of Georgia (1^st Row), GEPLAC , 1997(2^nd Row).

 

Trends in Share of Total Agricultural Production, (%)

 

	1985	1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Crop production	68.1	68.7	58.4	49.8	59.3	56.4	56.8	45,8
Livestock Production	31.9	31.3	41.6	50.2	40.7	43.6	43.2	54,2

 Source: SDS, Georgian Agriculture 2000, p.9.

 

Agricultural output (Current prices, mln. lari)

 

Agricultural Production	1980	1985	1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Total production	3219	4167	5199	1851	2062	2299	2266	2650	2024	1860
Of which: Plant-growing	2240	2838	3571	1081	1027	1363	1278	1506	927
Livestock	979	1329	1627	770	835	936	988	1144	1097
Of which by households	1584	2087	2495	1407	1650	1863	2116	2490	1903
Of which: Plant-growing	1102	1421	1714	816	805	1150	1163	1386	870
Livestock	481	666	781	591	845	713	953	1105	1033

Source: Georgian Agriculture 2000, p. 6

 

 

Distribution of Georgian Agricultural Territory by Inclination

 

0 – 2 gr.		2 - 10 gr.		10 – 20 gr.		20 gr. over		Total
Sq. km	%	Sq. km	%	Sq. km	%	Sq. km	%	Sq. km	%
13545,9	42,3	9237,1	28,8	5146,7	16,0	4166,7	12,9	32096,4	100

 

Distribution of Agricultural Land

 

	1986	1991	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Agricultural lands, total	3267,1	3275,4	3048,0	3034,5	3037,0	3063,5*	3018,4*	3019,7*
Of which: Arable	783,2	790,4	759,3	781,1	785,0	791,9	790,4	792,9
Of which sown areas	730,1**	701,9**	452,8	597,5	616,1	594,7	610,8
Perennial plants	357,0	336,9	307,0	284,6	277,5	269,8	270,1	269,3
Meadows	176,3	158,4	147,9	148,6	141,2	142,7	142,5	142,3
Pastures	1947,7	1983,7	1822,1	1820,2	1833,3	1839,7	1796,0	1795,8
Fallow	2,9	6,0	11,7	-	-	-	-	-

*Unlike to other years, this data includes the areas of dwelling and economic buildings and yards - 19,4 ths hectares** - accordingly 1985-1990

Source: Georgian Agriculture-2000, Tbilisi 2001, p.18

 

Areas kept by some plant-growing cultures (1000 hectares)

 

Culture	1988	1993	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Cereals and beans	272,0	256,0	437,2	415,8	378,8	386,4
Industrial crops	40,6	21,1	36,5	59,0	75,8	69,8
Potatoes, vegetables and melons	77,0	48,8	62,4	84,7	85,7	93,1
Fodder crops	344,8	43,2	57,7	56,6	54,4	61,5
Fruit-berries	128,2	83,5	85,3	65,3
Vineyard	115,6	78,9	81,2	70,2		60,0?	61,0?
Citruses	26,7	16,7	11,4	15,9
Tea plantations	65,1	33,7	34,7	39,9

Source: State Department for Statistics; ? Rezonansi, Interview, 04,04.2002

 

Agricultural production

 

Name	Produced, thousand tons
	1998	1999	2000	2001
Wheat	144,7	226,1	89,4	306,5
Barley	20,2	50,8	30,0
Maize	420,2	490,5	295,9	300,0
Pulses	9,2	9,3	2,6	5,0
Sunflower	22,8	40,5	2,6	30,2
Tobacco	3,4	2,1	1,5	1,6
Potatoes	349,8	443,3	302,0	415,0
Vegetables	380,0	417,0	354,2	350,0
Melons	32,2	108,2	80,0	70,0
Annual and perennial grass	108,3	127,3	50,0
Fruits	279,0	296,0	250,0	200,0
Grapes	238,5	220,0	210,0	150,0
Citrus’s	85,1	56,0	40,0	60,0
Tea leaves	47,2	60,0	24,0	23,0

Source: SDS;

 

Agricultural production

 

Name	Produced, thousand tons
	1980	1985	1988	1990
Wheat	208,6	174,2	638,1	257,7
Barley	87,5	96,7		117,8
Maize	306,2	321,5		270,2
Beans (Pulses)	na	16,1	na	7,3
Soy-Bean	3,9	6,0	na	3,4
Sunflower	9,5	9,3	16,9	7,7
Sugar Beet	119,9	61,2	51,2	30,6
Tobacco	16,8	20,4	11,9	8,1
Potatoes	392,8	393,8	337,9	293,8
Vegetables	583,1	604,3	662,3	443,2
Melons		42,5		38,8
Annual and perennial grass	na	796,9	na	624,3
Fruits	539,3	724,2	653,0	591,2
Grapes	995,6	914,9	619,7	691,0
Citrus’s	147,7	134,6	436,9	283,1
Tea leaves	501,8	581,2	458,7	501,7

Source: SDS; Alexandre Didebulidze. Agriculture and Rural Development in Georgia. UNDP, Tbilisi, 1997, p.63.

 

Agricultural Production

 

Name	Produced, tons		1999-2001 as % of 1988-1990
	1988-1990	1999-2001
Grain (after cleaning)	621,9	640,2	102,9
Sunflower	10,8	24,4	225,9
Potatoes	321,4	386,8	120,3
Vegetables and Melons	528,3	459,8	87,0
Tobacco	9,9	1,9	19,2
Fruits and Berries (without Citruses)	616,3	248,7	40,4
Grapes	608,3	193,3	31,8
Citrus’s	271,4	52,0	19,2
Tea leaves	486,0	35,7	7,3
Meat	173,7	103,6	59,6
Milk	700,4	663,1	94,7
Eggs (mln. pieces)	840,1	382,3	45,5
Wool	6,5	1,8	27,7

 

Number of livestock (for January 01), x1000

 

	1988	1993	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Cattle	1584	1002	944	974	1008	1027	1051	1122	1177	1250
Of which: Milk-cows	626	502	514	531	544	551	575	640	646	685
Horses	24	18	20	24	26	28	30	34	35
Pigs	1118	476	367	353	333	330	366	411	443	481
Sheep and goats	1921	1192	793	725	652	584	587	633	628	701
Poultry	23900	11200	12300	13847	14645	15541	8240	8473	7826
Bees (Families)	112	65	35	55	66	77	78	94	98

Source: SDS

 

Data series for livestock

 

Year	Cattle			Pigs			Sheep and goat			Poultry
	Total	Public	Private	Total	Public	Private	Total	Public	Private	Total	Public	Private
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
1941	1607,0	581,5	1025,5	615,6	53,3	562,3	2193,6	1085,7	1107,9
1942	1518,8	607,5	911,3	475,0	59,8	415,2	2051,5	1144,0	907,5
1943	1434,3	631,7	802,6	365,9	77,2	288,7	1891,7	1156,0	735,7
1944	1480,8	658,2	822,6	424,1	74,3	349,8	1997,5	1254,8	742,7
1945	1501,3	668,2	833,1	484,5	71,6	412,9	2170,2	1448,5	721,7
1950	1492,7	764,7	728,0	472,7	109,6	363,1	2509,2	1988,6	520,6	6651		5900
1955	1319,2	677,5	641,7	557,2	124,4	432,8	1625,8	1178,8	447,0	8173		7642
1960	1502,6	671,5	831,1	581,6	253,1	328,5	2125,0	1375,2	749,8	7471		6016
1965	1457,6	651,6	806,0	452,5	208,1	244,4	2183,0	1409,9	773,1	8664		6610
1970	1445,9	616,8	829,1	588,8	237,6	351,2	1826,8	1177,0	649,8	12046		8917
1975	1513,0	677,4	860,1	743,6	310,9	432,7	1982,4	1256,7	725,7	14161		8172
1980	1556,3	675,0	881,3	950,7	434,3	576,4	2041,2	1302,9	738,2	18376		9080
1981	1564,0	671,2	892,8	943,1	428,4	514,7	2043,8	1284,5	759,3	18781	9551	9230
1982	1588,9	668,2	920,7	980,9	393,5	527,4	2109,2	1285,1	824,1	19394	10372	9022
1983	1621,8	664,3	957,5	1011,1	464,4	546,7	1947,3	1125,1	822,2	19693	10739	8954
1984	1633,8	662,6	971,2	1082,1	492,0	590,1	1984,8	1136,9	847,9	20108	11341	8767
1985	1652,6	668,1	984,5	1133,4	509,3	624,1	1955,7	1103,5	852,2	22452	13803	8649
1986	1645,5	676,2	969,3	1173,4	537,3	636,1	1976,6	1099,3	880,3	24296	14639	9657
1987	1634,7	674,1	960,6	1150,4	528,4	622,0	1938,5	1082,5	856,0	24342	14789	9553
1988	1584,8	650,5	934,3	1117,8	517,9	599,9	1920,5	1059,9	860,6	23917	14538	9378
1989	1547,8	609,8	938,0	1099,2	491,9	607,3	1894,0	1012,9	881,1	25172	15612	9560
1990	1426,6	545,7	880,9	1027,8	444,9	582,9	1833,5	970,2	863,3	24002	14322	6980
1991	1298,3	468,9	829,4	880,2	357,0	523,2	1618,1	912,7	705,4	21760	10890	10870
1992	1207,9	390,5	817,4	732,5	263,7	468,8	1469,6	781,2	688,4	20167	8629	11538
1993	1002,6	198,7	803,9	476,2	90,3	385,9	1191,6	550,3	641,3	11211	1379	9832
1994	928,6	119,0	809,6	365,1	46,7	318,4	958,1	354,1	604,0	11858	1352	10505
1995	944,1	78,9	865,2	366,9	29,9	337,0	793,3	222,5	570,8	12290	462	11828
1996	973,6	56,7	916,9	352,6	24,3	328,4	724,8	148,4	576,1	13847	180	13667
1997	1008,0	41,9	966,1	332,5	9,1	323,4	652,0	98,1	553,9	14645	8	14637
1998	1027,2	24,8	1002,4	330,3	4,4	325,9	583,5	63,5	520,0	15542	115	15427
1999	1050,9	15,3	1035,6	365,9	3,0	362,9	586,7	44,5	542,2	8240	100	8140
2000	1122,1	11,0	1111,2	411,1	1,5	409,6	633,4	38,4	595,0	8473	84	8390
2001	1177,4	6,8	1170,6	443,4	0,8	442,6	627,6	27,4	599,8	7826	82	7744
2002	1250,1			480,5			701,2

 

 

Livestock output (Ths. tons)

 

	Production
	1988	1995	1999	2000	2001
Meat (in slaughter weight)	172,1	115,4	100,5	107,9	102,4
Milk	730,5	475,4	660,3	618,9	710,0
Eggs, mln. units	890,2	269,4	390,1	361,4	395,4
Wool, in net weight	6,3	3,1	1,7	1,9	1,9
Silk cocoon	1,9	0,05	0	0
Honey		0,7	1,5	1,4

Source: Georgian Social-economic indexes, 2000y. Interfax, 04.02.2002

 

Data series for livestock output

 

Year	Meat		Eggs		Milk
	Public	Private	Public	Private	Public	Private
1913	49,4	49,4	119	119	222	222
1928	62,0	62,0	-	-	-	-
1940	75,0	66,6	251,1	250,1	357,8	317,8
1945	37,4	24,5	104,2	98,4	266,4	221,4
1950	51,1	33,0	156,3	148,2	292,5	210,0
1955	83,7	54,8	236,9	221,8	414,2	256,6
1960	90,4	53,5	221,3	180,8	487,1	271,0
1965	92,8	65,6	305,2	225,1	470,7	286,1
1970	104,2	75,2	397,3	250,6	518,1	310,3
1975	206,8	86,4	536,8	228,8	574,9	306,7
1980	143,1	82,3	654,9	330,0	642,2	340,9
1985	166,4	84,3	822,7	224,3	684,4	380,2
1986	172,2	89,7	879,8	237,9	721,7	395,1
1987	174,6	89,5	887,2	238,7	724,2	395,2
1988	172,1	88,0	890,2	243,7	730,5	407,8
1989	178,8	68,0	860,8	260,7	711,4	411,4
1990	170,3	81,9	769,2	263,4	659,4	402,5
1991	137,2	92,0	638,1	292,6	562,3	379,2
1992	113,4	88,6	297,3	184,2	469,5	380,2
1993	100,4	90,0	242,8	205,3	433,1	387,5
1994	108,3	102,8	250,6	239,5	429,3	403,6
1995	115,4	112,0	269,4	261,4	475,4	455,8
1996	117,8	116,0	350,2	348,5	530,3	514,3
1997	120,7	119,1	370,4	370,4	600,2	589,1
1998	104,1	103,5	380,4	377,0	634,7	627,7
1999	101,0	100,1	390,1	386,4	660,3	655,5
2000	107,9	107,3	361,4	357,2	618,9	615,7
2001	102,4		395,4		710,0

 

Productivity of Agricultural Cultures

 

	1990	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Winter wheat	28,2	12,2	13,3	17,7	11,0	20,4	10,4	26,7
Maize	25,2	27,1	33,0	27,3	20,5	22,3	16,2	14,8
Tobacco	11,2	8,3	9,2	11,3	11,7	11,9	10,3
Sunflower	5,8	2,0	1,2	8,9	4,9	6,2	2,3	6,9
Potato	105,6	152,0	121,0	130,0	106,4	130,0	88,9	112,2
Vegetables	110,6	140,0	136,0	151,0	92,2	96,0	93,4	88,0
Melon	105,3	60,5	110,0	94,0	38,3	131,7	97,6
Perennial grass	27,6	16,4	14,7	27,6	26,3	23,9	11,4
Maize in silage	95,1	23,0	27,4	75,0	60,4	54,2	-
Fruit	58,0	41,8	40,3	40,4	49,2	52,0
Citruses	169,8	90,3	69,4	50,5	57,7	37,0
Grape	67,6	47,5	36,4	40,5	36,3	35,0
Tea leaves	90,0	12,6	10,4	10,5	19,5	25,0

 

Machine Park (condition by the end of year) x1000

 

Technical means	1988	1994	1998	2000	Demand
Tractor	27,2	18,2	10,7		18,0
Combine	1,8	1,2	0,9		1,2
Loading machine	26,3	12,6	8,8
Pumping mounting	1,4	0,4	0,3		0,5
Sprayer	0,9	0,4	0,2		0,1

Source: SSD

 

Technical Dynamic in Agrarian Sector of Georgia

 

Year	Tractor	Grain combine	Plough	Cultivator	Seeding machine	Tractor-drawn implement	Mineral fertilization thrower	Sprinkler	Loading machine
1988	26.806	1.576	10.343	5.370	4.237	10.490	2.534	4.851	20.182
1990	26.000	1.343	8.339	4.370	3.852	8.589	2.373	4.027	17.800
1992	23.009	1.236	6.720	3.184	2.987	6.846	1.832	2.928	15.255
1993	20.800	1.140	5.491	2.626	2.737	5.251	1.635	2.262	13.823
1994	18.200	1.080	5.365	2.567	2.692	5.298	1.319	2.206	13.240
1995	15.160	949	5.216	2.307	2.018	5.265	1.084	1.905	12.860
1996	15.240	996	5.232	2.335	2.064	5.483	1.192	1.628	12.371
1997	17.583	1.018	5.367	2.340	1.910	5.617	1.230	1.498	12.110
1998	17.240	969	4.190	1.750	1.870	5.083	949	1.450	10.353
1999	18.147	1.064	4.434	2.346	1.912	5.610	1.030	1.428	10.240
2000	17.199	1.002	4.528	2.216	1.575	5.600	709	1.102	9.398
2001

Source: The Ministry of Agriculture and Food

 

Food consumption in Georgia (1999)

 

	Kg per capita	Scientific standard, Kg	Consumption as % Of standard
Bread, flour, grouts, legumes	141,1	125	113
Meat & meat products	19,8	78	25
Milk and milk products	209	405	52
Eggs, pieces	124,6	232	54
Fish and canned fish	1,3	10,2	13
Sugar	24,8	40	62
Margarine & other fats	9,0	9	100
Potatoes	47,6	110	43
Vegetables, melons	66,8	130	51
Fruit and grape	43,5	90	48

Source: State Department for Statistics of Georgia

 

Consumption of energy, fat and albumen by population in Georgia

 

Index	Measurement	Dwelling minimum	In rational nourishment conditions	Actual 2000 year
Energy	KW in day and night	2.250	3.200	2630
Albumen	Gr. in day and night	74	100
Fat	Gr. in day and night	57	130

Source: Gordeev A, MSXJ, 2-2000, food consumption condition-t.2

 

Privatisation in Agriculture of Georgia (1998)

	Total Area thsd. ha	Including
		Private		Rent		State property, %
		thsd. ha	%	thsd. ha	%
Arable land	785,0	431,9	55,0	255,9	32,6	12,4
Perennial plants	277,5	185,7	66,9	31,0	11,2	21,9
Meadows	140,6	47,6	33,9	28,6	20,3	45,8
Pastures	1788,0	124,5	7,0	441,4	24,7	68,4
T o t a l	2991,1	789,7	26,4	756,9	25,3	48,3

 

Privatization in Agriculture of Georgia (2001)

	Total Area thsd. ha	Including
		Private		Rent		State property, %
		thsd. ha	%	thsd. ha	%
Arable land	792,9	434,8	54,8	257,5	32,5	12,7
Perennial plants	269,3	181,8	67,5	31,6	11,7	20,8
Meadows	142,3	41,3	29,0	57,1	40,1	30,9
Pastures	1795,8	84,3	4,7	593,4	33,0	62,2
T o t a l	3019,7	762,1	25,2	939,6	31,1	43,6

Source: Source: State Department of Land Management, Land Bal; ance for 04.2001 [GFA/KfW, 38]

 

Farm Structures

 

Farm type	Number of entities	Total area in ha	Average farm size in ha
Families with private land	1 055 200	762 100	0,72
Families and groups with rented land	31 900	352 000	11,03
Legal entities with rented land	6 300	587 600	93,27

Source: State Department of Land Management, Land Balance for 04.2001

 

Share of private farms in agricultural output (per cent)

 

	1990	1995	1996	1998	2000
Cereals and bean crops	26	79	78	88	94
Of which:
Winter wheat	0,1	26	20	73	89
Maize	62	95	94	94	96
Bean crops – total	62	95	98	98	99
Sunflower seeds	1	25	52	69	81
Soy beans	3	50	6	82	96
Potatoes	49	97	96	90	99
Vegetables	59	97	95	87	99
Melons	52	86	77	62	99
Fruit	80	99	99	99	99
Citruses	83	97	95	98	99
Grapes	45	94	97	97	99
Tea leaves	7	47	36	45	34
Total output	48				94

Source: Georgian Agriculture 2000, p.36

Share of private farms in agricultural output (per cent)

 

	1988	2000
Grain	25	94
Sunflower seeds	1	81
Soya –beans	2	96
Tobacco	17	99
Potatoes	43	99
Vegetables	47	99
Melons	65	99
Fruits	78	99
Citruses	77	99
Grapes	50	99
Tea	7	34
Total output	50,1 (1985), 48,0(1990)	94,0

Source: Georgian Agriculture 2000

Privatisation in Georgian Agriculture

 

The least	In private position, %
	1986	2001
Agricultural lands	5,6	25,2
Of which: Arable	12,3	54,7
Perennial plants	23,7	63,8
Meadows	1,4	29,0
Pastures	0	4,7
Cattle	58,9	99,4
Of which milk cows and she-buffalo	71,0	99,6
Pig	54,2	99,8
Sheep and goat	44,5	95,6
Horse	74,0	98,9
Bird and wing	39,7	99,0
Poultry	15,6	100
Bee family	45,5	100

Source: Georgian Agrostatistic 2000, Tbilisi, 2001. – p

 

 

Agriculture in Georgian Export (2001)

 

Export Position	Million US$	Percentage and Place
General Export	320028,8	100,0
Incl.: Wine	32195,3	10,1 (3)
Mineral Water	11663,4	3,6 (7)
Nuts	9843,5	3,1 (9)

Source: SDS

 

Import of Main Food Products (2001)

 

Import Position	Million US $	Percentage and Place
General Import	684097,5	100,0
Incl.: Sugar	24105,1	3,5 (4)
Tobacco Wares	24065,2	3,5 (5)
Meal	14792,9	2,2 (8)
Wheat	11186,1	1,6 (10)

Source: SDS; * - estimate

 

Agricultural Export and Import

 

Year	Export	Import	Turnover
1995	9536,4	11652,1	21188,5
1996	14977,3	72917,9	87895,2
1997	12388,0	68032,4	80420,4
1998	40918,2	268955,5	309873,7
1999	102171,0	436740,9	538911,9
2000	139554,5	529371,8	668926,3

 

Dynamic of Agrarian Export, 1997-2001 (mln US$)

 

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Tea	18,5	8,9	11,4	6,1	5,8
Citruses	9,1	9,5	1,9	2,5	1,6
Alcoholic drinks (instead wine)	5,2	5,5	5,5	4,0	5,9
Nuts	5,3	9,4	15,4	19,3	9,8
Wine	12,5	15,4	14,6	29,1	32,2
Mineral waters	18,5	7,2	2,6	9,5	15,2
Total export	239,8	192,3	238,2	329,9	320,0

Source: IMF (account No.211, 11.2001, pg.123;) in red State Statistic Department

 

Dynamic of Agrarian Import, 1997-2001 (mln US$)

	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Sugar	39,1	16,2	16,2	24,6	24,1
Tobacco wares	107,8	120,0	35,2	29,4	28,8
Wheat and flour	37,1	26,5	14,8	20,3	28,2
Beer	3,1	0,8	0,1	0,1	0,1
Bread products	57,2	31,8	15,5	21,9	17,3
Vegetable oil	2,2	4,7	1,1	1,0	3,4
Poultry meat, eggs	10,2	12,3	14,5	11,0	10,3
Coffee	9,0	5,4	5,0	4,3	2,0
Total import	941,7	884,3	601,9	650,7	684,1

Source: State Department of Statistic s; IMF(account No. 211, 11.2001, pg.124);

 

Investments in Fixed Capital

 

Year	Investments in Fixed Capital, total,Mln GEL	Of which Foreign Investments		Share of Agriculture, %
		Mln GEL	% of Total
1995	127	42	33,9	0
1996	170	86	50,6	0
1997	266	180	67,7	0
1998	512	401	78,3	0,04
1999	364	169	46,4	1,7
2000	349	119	34,1	0,4

Source: SDS, 25.01.2001

 

Foreign investments in fixed capital by fields and years

(in actual prices, mln Lari)

 

	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001
Foreign investments	42,9	86,4	179,9	401,0	168,6	119,0	128,2
The same in US$	33,2	68,5	138,6	271,2	83,1	60,2	62,2
Of which: Agriculture	-	-	-	0,2	6,0	1,3
Food industry	2,6	3,2	4,4	19,9	14,8	17,6
The same Gagua (EK 3/4/00		3,455	4,902	21,714
Sum	2,6	3,2	4,4	20,1	20,8	18,9
% of Foreign Investments	6,1	3,7	2,4	5,3	12,3	15,9

Source: Investment activities in Georgia, State Statistic Department, 1999