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Technical Assistance for Grape Phylloxera-Resistant Planting Material Production - TCP/ARM/3601

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 11

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Armenia has a rich history of wine and brandy production. In 2011, archaeologists excavated a 6 000-year-old winery in caves near the village of Areni, indicating that the country’s winemaking tradition dates back millennia. Armenia produced roughly 25 percent of the brandy in the former Soviet Union. During the 1980s, the country processed 200 000 tonnes of grapes for wine and brandy production. When the former Soviet Union collapsed, so did the winemaking industry in Armenia. Production volumes resurged slowly during the late 1990s and the early 2000s, driven mainly by a demand for brandy. In more recent years, wine production has also started to increase, owing to a growing interest in Armenian wines. Despite this interest and the resulting boost to the industry, viticulture in the country faces a serious threat in the form of phylloxera, a soil-borne pest that affects grape-growing regions and has the potential to destroy entire vineyards quickly.

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