The Turkey-Azerbaijan International Forestry Training and Sapling Centre has opened in the liberated Jabrayil district. The new complex has the capacity to produce 2 million saplings annually.
The Turkey-Azerbaijan International Forestry Training and Sapling Centre in Jabrayil district has been put into operation. The complex was built with support from Turkey’s General Directorate of Forestry, which operates under Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
The foundation for the facility was laid on October 20, 2022, in a ceremony attended by President Ilham Aliyev and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The complex covers a total area of 11.4 hectares. Of this, 12,200 square metres house the main teaching building, an administrative block, a production workshop and a sapling sales area, while the remaining 47,300 square metres are set aside for growing the saplings themselves.
The centre’s capacity allows it to raise 2 million saplings a year. Each year it will provide theoretical and practical forestry training to 400 people, with dormitory accommodation available for course participants.
On November 8, during a visit to Azerbaijan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a joint press briefing with President Ilham Aliyev at which he described the project as a modern example of Azerbaijan-Turkey cooperation. Erdogan also said Turkey would continue supporting Azerbaijan in the reconstruction of Karabakh.
