AZERBAIJAN TO REFORM AGRICULTURE.

Addressing a conference of agricultural managers and specialists, Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev called for a prompt start of agrarian reform. Aliev and other officials expressed concern over high grain imports and the sharp decline in the output and export of the country’s traditional agricultural products: fruits and vegetables, wine, and cotton. The conference commissioned an urgent reform program. (Interfax, April 3)

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