Reinforced Concrete Elements Factory to be Established In Keda Municipality
Keda Leader Project is being implemented in Keda Municipality within the framework of ENPARD II. The project is supported by EU and CENN.
Keda Leader aims to diversify local economic activities, foster investment, and empower competitive agricultural and environmental practices in Keda Municipality via bottoms-up strategic planning of rural development. The priority of the project is to increase Keda Municipality’s development potential and make optimal use of local resources.
The following activities will be implemented within the project:
- Establishment and capacity building of the Keda Local Action Group (LAG) (involving AMAGs) and community-based institutions, raising awareness of the EU’s rural development approaches the institutional building of the Keda LAG, linking and networking with other LAGs nationwide.
- Participatory development of a gender and youth sensitive Keda Rural Development Strategy (RDS), development of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) tools for implementation of the Keda RDS, approval of the Keda RDS by the relevant state authorities in Adjara.
- Implementation of innovative projects (through sub-grants under the strategy) to foster economic and investment opportunities and inclusive rural growth, and improve the well-being of rural communities (identification of sustainable projects generating new employment opportunities, financing, and implementation of innovative projects); participatory development of the Keda Marketing and Communication Strategy; the Invest in KEDA active media outreach and marketing campaign; organization of the Keda business forum and Keda Rural Festivals; exchange and site visits to promote projects and attract investments; capacity building and promoting opportunities for rural youth (organization of youth camps, support of youth initiatives/projects).
As the project's beneficiary and author, Avtandil Tsintsadze notes, planting vineyards became more relevant issue nowadays on account of existed facilitating conditions. The area of vineyards gradually enlarge, but simultaneously rural development needs its resources. This is the reason, why Avtandil Tsintsadze decided to provide rural society with reinforced concretes.
"Heretofore, they were planting vineyards via wooden poles. From now on, they will spend much fewer wood resources. Apart from this, reinforced concretes are more solid and firm, which means that the vineyard owner won't need to care for new pillars and seek for different resources again.", stated Avtandil Tsintsadze.