Azerbaijan-Türkiye forest center opens in Jabrayil for 400 trainees annually

The Azerbaijan-Türkiye International Forestry Training Center and nursery opened in Jabrayil, which was freed from Armenian occupation. Ilham Aliyev and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan laid the foundation stone in 2022.

The Azerbaijan-Türkiye International Forestry Training Center and nursery began operating in Jabrayil District of Karabakh, which was freed from Armenian occupation. The foundation stone for the facility was laid on October 20, 2022, by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Türkiye's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

The complex was built with the participation of the General Directorate of Forestry of Türkiye's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry on an area of 11.4 hectares. It includes a training center, an administrative building, a nursery workshop and a seedling sales point, with a total floor area of 12,200 square meters.

Entrance to the Azerbaijan-Türkiye Forestry Training Center in Jabrayil

Two million seedlings annually

The nursery will have the capacity to produce 2 million seedlings annually, with cultivation carried out on an area of 47,300 square meters. The training center will be able to accommodate 400 people each year for theoretical and practical training, including lodging.

During his visit to Azerbaijan on November 8, Erdoğan called the complex a new symbol of Türkiye-Azerbaijan cooperation and said that Türkiye was providing all possible support for its development, as it had during the liberation of Karabakh.

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