Georgia has exported locally produced goods worth $1.58 billion in January-April, up by 32.8% YoY, preliminary data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia showed. Geostat said local exports in the country had accounted for 76.1% of total exports in the reporting period, amounting to $1.27 billion, up by 37.1%. Georgia’s top trading partners were…
Georgia received $582 million from international tourist visits between January-April, up by 463.1% YoY, the Georgian National Tourism Administration reported. Revenues from international tourism have recovered by 68.9% compared to the pre-pandemic 2019, said the GNTA. Other data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia showed Georgia hosted 431,300 international visitors in the first quarter…
Meat production in Georgia increased in the first quarter of the year to 16.7 tons, or by 5.7% YoY, the latest preliminary data of the Georgian National Statistics Office showed along with a decrease in milk production. Geostat made available figures from the quarter that showed milk production decreased to 112.2 liters, or by 2.7%.…
Georgian wine-producing companies are participating in ProWein-2022, an annual international wine and alcoholic beverages exhibition in the German city of Dusseldorf, the National Wine Agency of Georgia reports. With the support of the Agency and the Georgian Wine Association, a total of 24 Georgian companies are featured in the exhibition where Georgia has been represented…
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and members of the Government’s Economic Council met on May 14 to review steps and measures to be made towards ensuring growth in the country. Garibashvili said Georgia was experiencing a “double-digit” growth and while the tourism sector had recovered by almost 70% compared to the pre-pandemic year of 2019,…
Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili on May 12 inspected the ongoing construction of a residential district on the outskirts of Tbilisi, with the project designed for service members and their families and dubbed Army City. Accompanied by Defence Minister Juansher Burchuladze to observe the work on Makhata Mountain in the northern part of the…
Over 100,000 Georgian citizens have purchased drugs imported from Turkey over the two months since the launch of the Government initiative to lower medication costs on the local market by importing products from Turkey, Health Minister Zurab Azarashvili has said. Speaking to MPs in the Minister’s Hour format of the Georgian Parliament, Azarashvili said the…