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Qatari Sheeps now made in USSR
Qatar ‘to buy land in Georgia’ for farming
Qatar plans to buy land in Georgia for corn cultivation and to begin this year importing as many as 70,000 sheep a year from the former Soviet republic, Georgian Agriculture Minister Bakur Kvezereli said.
“They’re interested in buying land in Georgia for agriculture and are also interested in importing our vegetables and sheep,” Kvezereli said in an interview on a flight from Doha to the Georgian capital Tbilisi. “They’re willing to pay as much as $250 per sheep,” he added.
Kvezereli accompanied Georgian Prime Minister Nika Gilauri to Doha this week for talks with government officials and business leaders, following President Mikheil Saakashvili’s trip to the country last November.
Saakashvili last year turned to the Middle East to revive foreign investment that slowed to a trickle following a war with Russia in August 2008 and the global economic slump.
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