The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the first lady Mehriban Aliyeva and their daughters Leyla Aliyeva got acquainted with the conditions created at the dry fruit production facility of "Green Factory" Limited Liability Company (LLC) in Orta Zayzid village of Sheki on December 2.

APA reports that Elkhan Usubov, the head of Sheki City Executive Power, informed the head of state Ilham Aliyev, first lady Mehriban Aliyeva and Leyla Aliyeva about the activities of the enterprise.


It was reported that the enterprise has 100 hectares of garden area.

A garden consisting of more than 55,000 fruit trees imported from France, Italy and Turkey, including several types of peach, nectarine, apricot, plum, date, cherry, apple and cherry fruit was planted in that area.


It was pointed out that 8 artesian wells were dug to supply the orchard with irrigation water, and water tanks with a total volume of 15,000 cubic meters were built.

In order to continuously and efficiently irrigate the area, a station consisting of 2 water pumps was built, and a drip irrigation system was created in accordance with all the technical norms of modern irrigation technologies.


A logistics center operates on the territory of the enterprise.

This center includes 9 refrigerating chambers with a total volume of one thousand cubic meters, drying with a daily production capacity of 3 tons, sorting and packaging equipment with a production capacity of 5 tons per hour, warehouse building, office and other auxiliary buildings.


It was reported that 38 permanent workers and 120-150 seasonal workers work in the enterprise and garden area.

A preferential loan of 2.5 million manats was taken from the Entrepreneurship Development Fund for the establishment of an enterprise with a total cost of 7.5 million manats.

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The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, the first lady Mehriban Aliyeva and their daughter Leyla Aliyeva got acquainted with the conditions created at the dry fruit production facility of "Green Factory" Limited Liability Company in the Orta Zayzid village of Sheki on December 2.

APA reports that the Press Service of the President released information about this.