“The Right Strategy will Enable Georgia to Satisfy at Least 80% of Grain Demand Through Domestic Production in 2-3 years”.

“The right strategy will enable Georgia to satisfy at least 80% of grain demand through domestic production in 2-3 years”, according to representatives of the Lomtagora company. According to 2019 reports, Lomtagora harvested 11 tons of grain on one hectare, a record volume. 

How will this change the market, and how important is domestic grain production in Georgia, where imported grain dominates?

Lomtagora’s Director, Kakha Lashkhi, explains that these results were achieved thanks to 20-years of tireless efforts. “We have achieved this result step by step. It would be difficult to have such a success at once, because there were unfavorable conditions. Our empirical experience has brought this result”, Lashkhi said. 

The Lomtagora company has the ambition to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. “Georgia has made serious progress in terms of grain growing. Consequently, we have ambitious plans for harvesting 28 tons of grain on one hectare”, Kakha Lashkhi said. 

Irakli Rekhviashvili, Deputy Director of Research at the Lomtagora Company, explains that  the company has already tested two grain varieties to grow high-level yields. We also have a third perspective variety, from which the company will receive more output. 

The existing grain varieties give real grounds for optimism. The weight of one grain is about 7-8 grams. Based on the biological parameters of this grain variety, and according to our reports, we will  have a dramatic breakthrough and success”, Rekhviashvili said.