Since 2020, the nature protection problems of Yerevan have been assigned to the community-owned organization called “Landscaping and environment protection”. The first problem was to purchase proper quantity of relevant equipment and machinery. Mayor Hayk Marutyan visited the station where the machinery is stored to familiarize himself with the facilities.
Mayor Marutyan marked that the organization was set up to centralize all the potential in one place and to work out one policy for the city landscaping. With this aim the necessary equipment and machinery were purchased step by step.
The head of the mentioned-above organization Ara Aghayan informed that 18 cargo and passenger vans have been purchased recently to serve the gardeners and workers working in administrative districts. 10 different types of machinery is to be purchased as well so as to increase the quality and pace of the related activities.
The vehicles are currently parked near the city greenhouses. Soon the area of 4300 sq m will be allotted to set up the special station for parking and technical maintenance of the machinery and vehicles and attached warehouses. The territory of greenhouses will be expanded as well. Of 25 hectares only 5 are actually used today. The main part of the trees and flowers to be planted in the city are grown here.
According to the Mayor, the greenhouse facilities unfortunately were in improper state. And the city authorities set a task to grow all those flowers locally instead of storing the purchased ones here.
The “Landscaping and environment protection” SNCO vice director Christina Vardanyan informed that the organization intends to grow mainly evergreen and perennial plants which will be beneficial for the city ecology.
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Today, 30 employees of the greenhouse grow 30 sorts of plants including those involved in the Red Book. The greenhouse is also engaged in scientific activities.
As the Mayor said, the city greenhouses should fully satisfy the demands of Yerevan in greens and provide other cities of Armenia as well, so that is the goal the city authorities pursuit in this regard.
This year it is planned to install 30 km of new irrigation lines. Generally, there is a lot to be done in the field of nature protection and landscaping: to increase the volumes of green zones, to work out new long term programs.
Yerevan Municipality
