Construction of a facility for production of black caviar was launched today in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). The unprecedented project is financed by a Swiss businessman of Armenian origin Vardan Sermakesh, who is also one of the largest shareholders in Artsakh hydropower plant. The Nagorno-Karabakh government press service told ARKA that Prime Minister Ara Harutyunyan and Sermakesh visited yesterday the village of Mataghis, the site of the project. The fish farm will have 350 pools for growing fry and make Nagorno-Karabakh an exporter of this delicacy in several years. According to Karabakh prime minister, the implementation of this project in the border community will serve as an additional incentive for the development of the nearby villages. Prime Minister Harutyunyan and Sermakesh visited also a number of local enterprises, including the Artsakh HPP that was the first to conduct IPO contributing greatly to the republic’s energy independence. The two men were said to have traveled also to Drmbon community hosting Base Metals mining company. Prime Minister Harutyunyan was said to have praised the Swiss businessman for investing tens of billions of Armenian drams in the development of the Karabakh’s agriculture, banking, hydropower and mining sectors. ($ 1 – 409.29 drams) . repatarmenia.org/eng/nagorno-karabakh-to-become-large-exporter-of-black-caviar/
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 06:46:17 +0000