President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva are on a visit to Gakh district

On October 28, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva were on a visit to Gakh district.

President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva first arrived at the monument erected to national leader Heydar Aliyev in the centre of Gakh town, and put flowers before the monument.

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On October 28, President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva attended the opening of the Gakh Pedigree Silkworm Breeding Station, reconstructed by the Agriculture Ministry.

The station’s total area is 5 hectares, with the construction section being over 2 thousand square metres. An administrative building, two-storied laboratory and incubation centre, as well as hybrid grains production centre are on the station’s territory. Here have also been constructed a building to feed silkworm families. The Gakh Pedigree Station’s function will be preparing and increasing high-quality primary materials of newly created silk warm breeds and hybrids, improving their biological and technological characteristics, and providing silk warm grain factories and breeders with industrial grain at the expense of new production.

Mulberry orchards have been laid out in an area of 3 hectares on the territory of the station, using a Chinese technology.

President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva were given information about the research works being carried at the establishment towards creating artificial feed.

The President and his spouse were given information about the “Smart Village” – “State Village Development Project” in the station.

Extensive improvement and construction works have been carried out on the station’s territory, and a boiler house and water reservoirs of different purposes constructed.

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On October 28, President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva attended the opening of the Gakh Agropark of “ULU Agro” LTD.

Total area of the agropark, located on the territory of Aghyazy winter quarters pasture, is 2094 hectares. Irrigable area is 1268 hectares. 28 pivot equipment has been installed in an area of 863 hectares, with 405 hectares of the territory being provided with the trickle irrigation system. With the purpose of providing the sowing areas with sustainable and quality water, a 4.6 km-long water line has been built using state investments made to Agropark, a 50 thousand cubic-metre concrete water reservoir built, and all melioration actions taken. Basic repair works have been carried out on the Gakh-Gypchag-Aghyazy motor road, passing adjacent to Agropark area.

President Ilham Aliyev met with representatives of the district community.

Then, President Ilham Aliyev pushed the button signifying the start of the irrigation system of the agropark, and viewed the sowing area.

The activities carried out on the whole territory of the agropark may be controlled through the state-of-the art logistics centre created here. The latest equipment is applied on the area covered by the agropark. Special meteorological stations have been built here. These stations are transferring information about such factors as the weather condition, soil’s temperature, and humidity to the logistics centre.

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On October 28, President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva attended the inauguration of Ulu Yurd Limited Liability Company and Yurd Hotel.

Construction of the hotel started in September 2017, with the construction works - carried out with high quality and blissfully - being completed in September this year.

Located 8.5 kilometres off the town of Gakh, the hotel has been constructed on the territory of the Green Park Recreation Centre, with total area of 3.3 hectares. The construction area of the complex is 2100 square metres. The 100-bed, three-storied hotel building accommodates 48 rooms on various categories. 45 of the rooms are standard, 3 for families. A VIP cottage too has been created here.

A mini football pitch has been created on the territory to make sure that tourists can engage in sports. Moreover, an open type café-bar and a restaurant will be serving guests here.