Nana Nikuradze, who farms one hectare in Samtredia, now composts crop residues and manure instead of burning them and aims to replace all her chemical fertiliser.
LivestockFormer Seattle cheese factory worker Trevor Warmedahl has travelled to more than 20 countries in six years to learn traditional cheese and herding, from Mongolia's aaruul to Georgia's Tushuri guda.
An FAO programme funded by the EU and Sweden gave Georgian hazelnut growers food-safety training and matching grants for dryers, cutting the aflatoxin losses that can force a whole harvest to be destroyed.
AgribusinessUS prosecutors accuse five people of charging Mexican farmworkers thousands of dollars in illegal fees and threatening them, in a case that echoes two pending H-2A cases in Washington state.
FruitsThe United States grew 3.87 billion pounds of watermelons in 2025, and Georgia moved ahead of Florida on more acres and above-average yields, a USDA Economic Research Service chart shows.
CropsUSDA's Plant Protection and Quarantine programme and three south-eastern states are stepping up trapping and surveys after the invasive hornet, first found in Georgia in 2023, was confirmed in North Carolina.
AgribusinessOn 27 July 2026 USDA and Georgia finalised a Cooperative Interstate Shipment agreement, letting participating state-inspected meat processors ship across state lines under the USDA mark and bringing the programme to 11 states.
AgrotechScientists in Georgia, a country with an 8,000-year winemaking tradition, set out under the IX Millennium project to find grape varieties able to survive Mars's radiation, cold and thin air.
