Contribute to the formation and empowerment of knowledge and soft skills among ANAU students and graduates as well as youth interested in agriculture and young professionals.

Promoting the use of innovative agricultural approaches.
Participants will receive modern innovative knowledge and skills necessary to meet the market demand and lead to the sector competitiveness, will master modern technologies, including IT solutions in agriculture, sustainable and smart agriculture approaches, such as circular economy, green agriculture, intensive agriculture, etc. This will be achieved through hands-on short-term vocational training and skill building, as well as summer schools on various innovative agricultural topics.

Facilitate the expansion and empowerment of producers/cooperatives to promote greater progress and economic growth in Armenia’s agricultural sector. This, in turn, will contribute to long-term food security by ensuring prosperity and expanding economic opportunities in rural Armenia. The program will support the government’s efforts to strengthen the agricultural sector, helping toovercome the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the global macroeconomic crisis.

The program will support the government’s eforts to strengthen the agricultural sector, helping to overcome the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the global macroeconomic crisis.

Capacity building of cooperative members, SMEs and farmers in all parts of the value chain.

Knowledge advancing and capacity building activities will be implemented, with a vision to positively contribute to increased productivity of cooperative members, SMEs and farmers. The content of training will capitalize on findings of knowledge and skill gap assessment results and focus on facilitating cooperation among farmers with the goal of resource optimization, productivity increase, enhancement of quality production and higher market bargaining power.

In-kind grants for cooperatives, SMEs and farmers.

The Program will provide appropriate agricultural machinery/equipment to the most active and successful members of cooperatives, SMEs and farmers in order to contribute to increased productivity and export volumes.

Market expansion and export promotion

The Program will organize B2B and wine tour events in cooperation with international distributors, as well as will ensure the participation of Program beneficiaries in major national and international events (conferences, exhibitions, exchange visits, study tours, etc.)

Promote the involvement of women in agricultural innovation to ensure sustainable progress in agriculture.

Capacity building of female farmers and agripreneurs:

Drawing from the program-organized needs assessment for new and innovative solutions in agriculture, the Program will develop several training modules to raise productivity and enhance women’s access to agricultural innovations. These modules will be used to train women agripreneurs, female farmers, local government representatives throughout Armenia to better evaluate opportunities for innovation, successfully adopt new farm practices and technologies as well as ensure high quantity and quality yield. In addition, the beneficiaries of the program will be informed about the possible dangers of human traffcking in agriculture.

Organization of “Agrithons” for generating and scaling-up innovative products and services:

Agrithons will help bring together agricultural professionals, women agri-entrepreneurs, developers, engineers and other professionals to discover new solutions and to boost productivity and demand in the agricultural sector. Providing a creative and stimulating atmosphere, this competition/platform will enable women-led teams from different parts of Armenia, as well as teams whose ideas are aimed at empowering women-owned companies, to improve their ideas, products or services under the guidance of experienced mentors and experts. During the final event the most innovative, creative, ecient and sustainable teams will be awarded grants to bring their business ideas to life.

Promotion of student involvement in research and development (R&D)

Promote student involvement in agricultural research and development by providing professional guidance and small research grants to ANAU students. As a result, students will conduct research, participate in international and local conferences, and publish scientific articles

Establishing and functioning of the AgriHUB platform

For the purpose of creation, development and promotion of modern agricultural and agro-technological ideas, production prototypes, as well as products and services. AgriHUB, which will be located in the infrastructure owned by ICARE in Proshyan community, is designed to contribute to the discovery of the innovative potential of students, young professionals and agri-entrepreneurs in Armenia. It will also serve as a learning center and workshop for hands-on training and comprehensive courses for young researchers, agricultural startups and other target groups of Armenia who want to learn and test modern agricultural technologies, as well as create and promote synergistic links between agribusiness, high-tech, tourism and other fields. This platform will also help in promotion of women’s involvement and leadership in agro-technical research, innovation and entrepreneurshi

The main objective of this component is to develop a digital twin technology for agriculture, utilizing the capabilities of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS), providing an innovative and comprehensive platform for effective in-season crop management and optimization of farm operations. The tool and the platform will be called AgroTwin.

Exspectations: Several data dashboards will be developed within the AgroTwin platform allowing policy makers, farmers, investors and agricultural researchers to model, simulate, plan, analyze for efficient decision making, optimal policy making, for improved food security and making farming more sustainable.

AgroTwin will provide the following capabilities:

• Spatial and Remote Sensing Analyses
• Scenario Analysis Tools
• Monitoring and Analyzing the Impact of Climate Change

AgroTwin will utilize ArcGIS Hub technology which transforms the way users engage and collaborate with the community on key policy initiatives.

ArcGIS Hub will provide:

• Maps and apps to inform citizens
• A central place to collaborate
• A way to capture data in an accessible digital format
• Apps and tools for innovation

Collaboration: In the scope of this new Objective AGRI CAMP team will collaborate with Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center and the specialists of Precision Agriculture Center and Agro-drone lab of the Armenian National Agrarian University.

The Texas A&M AgriLife team will provide regular support to AGRI CAMP team on development of data frameworks, training and testing machine learning (ML) as well as in the implementation of various other key functions.