He made the remarks at a plenary session of the Azerbaijani parliament in Baku Dec. 6 in discussions on the draft state budget and the concept of socio-economic development for 2017 and the next three years.

He said that the agroparks will be built in 19 districts of Azerbaijan. A variety of processing and manufacturing enterprises are planned to be built in these agroparks.

Currently, the work is underway in Azerbaijan to create ‘Yalama’ and ‘Shamkir’ agroparks.

Mustafayev said that the work within the first stage of construction continues in Shamkir agropark, and the first stage of construction work has been already completed in the Khachmaz district [Yalama agropark].

"The construction of agroparks and large modern farms is of great importance,” the minister added.

The foundation of the Shamkir agropark was laid in 2014, and its area is ​​about 600 hectares.

The Yalama agropark operates since Sept. 8, 2016. The volume of investments made to the agropark is 20 million manats, and up to 40 million manats in general will be invested within the framework of the two construction stages.