The government has allocated 100 million lari to subsidize rtveli

At a meeting in the Chateau Zegaani of the Prime Minister with the winemakers of Kakheti, possible options for reducing the negative impact of the consequences of the pandemic on local wine production were discussed. To this end, a state program for financial support of the harvest will be implemented in Georgia. Up to 25 thousand farmers will be able to receive a subsidy.

The essence of the program is to set a fixed price of 0.90 lari for the rkatsiteli grape variety when selling to the enterprise. A third of this amount will be paid by the state.

Also during the meeting, it was decided to organize a round-the-clock coordination headquarters to control the harvesting of young crops.

For the greater half of this year, almost 50 million bottles of wine have already been sold in the country in fifty countries. Last year, the indicator was 12 percent lower, and the cost was 9 percent lower. The authorities do not intend to reduce the pace of exports of products, and in the next decade they plan to increase trade turnover to $ 1 billion.