Training on Market Price Information System (MPIS)
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ISET Policy Institute (ISET-PI), as a part of the ENPARD project (under the CARE consortium), is involved in the collection and analysis of the market price information of agricultural products around Georgia. ISET-PI, in co-operation with the Ministry of Agriculture of Georgia (MoA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), organized training for representatives from the MoA’s Information and Consultation Centers (ICC). The training programme was intended for price collectors, who collect and enter market price data for more than 100 primary agriculture products into a special website developed under this project. Data is collected from 56 municipalities across Georgia on a weekly basis.
APRC Hosted Interns
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ISET students Ana Akoposhvili and Ketevan Melkadze came second place in the Mariam Kutelia Research Grant competition. They took part during their internship at a USAID-funded project, Restoring Efficiency to Agricultural Production. The purpose of the competition was to write the proposals on how to improve the current state of the Georgian agricultural sector. The ISET students were awarded another paid internship at the Agricultural Policy Research Center (APRC) between April 15 and June 15.
As an intern, Ketevan is responsible for conducting desk research regarding the best international practices on reporting agricultural commodity prices and their distribution among farmers. Based on her literature critique, Ketevan is hoping to write a literature review on the evaluation methods of cooperatives’ performance. Ketevan also works on indicators evaluating the performance of Georgian cooperatives and assists ENPARD team during the field work.
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