On 7 March, the award ceremony of the “Female Hero of Agricultural Product\u201d prize, initiated by the Agricultural Alliance of Armenia and the RA Ministry of Agriculture took place.<\/p>\n
This year the award ceremony was titled “Established Cooperative, developing Agriculture” and aimed to encourage women who are active in the agricultural sector and have succeeded in Armenia.<\/p>\n
The event was organized in the framework of the \u201cParticipatory Policies \u2013 Sustainable Agriculture\u201d project implemented by the Armenian Agricultural Alliance, within the scope of sub-grant provided in the scope of the EU-funded \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project.<\/p>\n
The event was hosted by the Armenian National Agrarian University.\u00a0Mr. Vardan Urutyan, Rector of the University, highlighted the role of women in the development of agriculture.\u00a0“Today, women are equally working with men, but they are more enthusiastic and devoted, and they create good things for their children and the children of other people.”<\/p>\n
Ms Margarita Hakobyan, Managing Director of the OxYGen Foundation, noted that it has become a tradition and the award ceremony of “Female Hero of Agricultural Product\u201d prize has been traditionally celebrated for already 7 years.\u00a0“Today we encourage women who are active and successful in agricultural cooperatives in Armenia.”<\/p>\n
Mr. Garnik Petrosyan, the RA Deputy Minister of Agriculture, noted the importance of the initiative, and said that it has a mission to spread information on the achievements of women in the field and to make them visible to others.\u00a0“One of the problems of the sphere today is the fragmentation of the plots and I believe more importance should be provided to the development of cooperation.\u00a0The ministry plans to introduce new approaches and programs that will boost the development of co-operative.”<\/p>\n
Mr. Karen Zadoyan, \u201cCommitment to Constructive Dialogue\u201d Project manager, President of the Armenian Lawyers Association, highlighted the women\u2019s role in the development and monitoring of public policies, and noted that thanks to the Alliance today the women\u2019s voice is being heard.<\/p>\n
“Public policies and laws should be human-centered and should reflect citizens’ desires and expectations.\u00a0If not, then naturally, they cannot be useful,” Karen Zadoyan said.<\/p>\n
Then Ms Anahit Navasardyan, Projects Coordinator of \u201cShen\u201d Charitable NGO, talked about the prospects and challenges facing the development of agricultural cooperatives.<\/p>\n
11 women from Lori, Vayots Dzor, Gegharkunik, Tavush, Aragatsotn, Kotayk marzes were awarded the <\/strong>“Female Hero of Agricultural Product\u201d prize<\/strong><\/p>\n Alvard\u00a0Davoyan,\u00a0Vardablur\u00a0community of\u00a0Lori\u00a0Marz<\/p>\n Anush\u00a0Hakobyan,\u00a0Gom\u00a0community of\u00a0Vayots\u00a0Dzor\u00a0Marz<\/p>\n Gayane\u00a0Kharatyan,\u00a0Sevkar\u00a0community of Tavush\u00a0Marz<\/p>\n Gohar\u00a0Movsisyan,\u00a0Teghenik\u00a0community of\u00a0Kotayk\u00a0Marz<\/p>\n Heghine\u00a0Kirakosyan,:Arayi\u00a0village of\u00a0Aragatsotn\u00a0Marz<\/p>\n Jemma\u00a0Khanzadyan,\u00a0Tsovagyugh\u00a0community of\u00a0Gegharkunik\u00a0Marz<\/p>\n Larisa\u00a0Amirkhanyan\u00a0,\u00a0Gosh\u00a0community of\u00a0Tavush\u00a0Marz<\/p>\n Marine\u00a0Harutyunyan,\u00a0Kurtan\u00a0community of\u00a0Lori\u00a0Marz<\/p>\n Tsovik\u00a0Ohanyan,\u00a0Byurakan\u00a0community of\u00a0Aragatsotn\u00a0Marz<\/p>\n Raisa\u00a0Khachatryan,\u00a0Solak\u00a0community of\u00a0Kotayk\u00a0Marz<\/p>\n Nune\u00a0Sarukhanyan, “Green\u00a0Lane”\u00a0NGO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 7 March, the award ceremony of the “Female Hero of Agricultural Product\u201d prize, initiated by the Agricultural Alliance of Armenia and the RA Ministry of Agriculture took place. This year the award ceremony was titled “Established Cooperative, developing Agriculture” and aimed to encourage women who are active in the agricultural sector and have succeeded …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,94,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-coalitions","category-news","category-news-news-coalitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5113,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/5113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ccd.armla.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}