I have read an article that checked the validity of Khazaradze’s statement about the declining share of agriculture in GDP as well as its increase, or lack of it, in absolute numbers, which turned out to be relatively true. This all, while agriculture recieved good amount of subsidies from the government.

I’m going to take few relevant variables and make graphs to compare how much, if any, of a mismatch there is between government spending and productivity of agricultural work.

The first graph shows the overall share of agriculture relative to GDP over the years.

The graph shows that share of agriculture has clearly declined over time.

These are production of agricultural products from 2006 to 2018. Data from 2006 to 2013 is not comparable to data from 2014 to 2018, since there was a change in sampling.

Production of milk has been on the decline since 2013, but it increased relatively in 2018.

During these years, meat declined to the point of 42.600 tons in 2012 but has been on the steady increase since then.

Egg production has been increasing all the while.

The government of Georgia has been subsidising agricultural area with various programmes and direct investments. The treemap below gives the cost of these programmes which are partially funded by the government.

შეღავათიანი აგრო კრედიტი is excluded for the visibility of the graph as it’s an outlier. Its value exceeds 1.5 bilion GEL.