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Citation: ZH Aliyev. Modern Vacation of Economic Development Indicators of Caspian Regions in Azerbaijan. Curr Inves Agri Curr Res 1(4)- 2018.
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Modern Vacation of Economic Development
Indicators of Caspian Regions in Azerbaijan
ZH Aliyev*
Institute of Erosion and Irrigation of ANAS, Russia
Received: March 14, 2018; Published: March 22, 2018
*Corresponding author: ZH Aliyev, Institute of Erosion and Irrigation of ANAS, Russia, Email:
Economic Regions of Azerbaijan(Figure 1)
Figure 1.
Absheron Economic Region
a. Area: 3,29 thousand km2.
b. Population: 551,800 people.
c. Administrative districts: Sumgait city, Absheron and Khizi
districts.
d. Natural resources: sawdust, limestone, cements raw
material, quartz, construction sand, balneological resources.
e. Main areas of the economy: Industrial and agrarian-
industrial complex, tourism.
f. Industrial areas: oil and gas extraction, petrochemicals
and chemistry, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, energy,
light and food industries.
sheep breeding, vegetable growing, gardening, vine growing,
and other products are grown.
h. Areas of service: Construction, transport, communic
ation, tourism and so on.
i. It is the only economic region with no domestic drinking
water. The economic region is provided by drinking water and
water pipes from the Samur and Kura rivers.
Aran Economic Region
a. Area: 21, 43 thousand km2.
b. Population: 1936,0 thousand people.
c. Administrative districts: Aghdash, Agjabadi, Barda,
Beylagan, Bilasuvar, Goychay, Hajigabul, Imishli, Kurdamir,
Neftchala, Saatli, Sabirabad, Salyan, Ujar, Zardab regions,
Mingachevir, Yevlakh and Shirvan [1-8].
d. Natural resources: Oil, natural gas, iodine and bromine
mineral water, building materials, solar energy, water resources,
land suitable for cultivation.
e. Main areas of economy: Industry, agriculture.
f. Industrial areas: Electro-energy, chemical, mechanical
engineering, light, food, construction materials. The power
generated by two power plants in Mingachevir city is about 60
percent of the country’s energy produced.
g. Agrarian areas: Cotton growing, grain growing, viticulture,
dry subtropical fruit growing, horticulture. More than 90
percent of cotton produced in Azerbaijan is in this region.
Potatoes and sugar beets are also grown in the region.
h. Areas of service: Transport, communication and so on.
Daily Shirvan Economic Region
a. Territory: 6,06,000 km2.
b. Administrative districts: Agsu, Ismayilli, Gobustan and
Shamakhi districts.
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c. Population: 304,0 thousand people.
d. Natural resources: Stone, gravel, sand, lime, clay and
construction materials, mineral waters.
e. Main Areas of Economy: Agriculture, Industry, Tourism
and Folk Art.
f. Industrial areas: Food and light.
g. Agrarian Areas: Agriculture, Viticulture, Wine-Making
and Livestock. The leading crop in agriculture is grain growing.
h. Areas of service: Transportation, tourism and so on.
Ganja-Kazakh Economic Region
a. Territory: 12,48 km2.
b. Population: 1240,8 thousand people.
c. Administrative districts: Agstafa, Dashkasan, Gadabay,
Goranboy, Goygol, Gazakh, Samukh, Shamkir, Tovuz, Ganja and
Naftalan.
d. Natural resources: iron ore, alunite, limestone, marble,
gypsum, sealite, cement raw material, hydro-electric and
natural-recreational resources.
e. Main Areas of Economy: Agriculture, Industry, Tourism
and Folk Art.
f. Industrial areas: Heavy and Thinning: Black and non-
ferrous metallurgy, mechanical engineering, light industry, food
industry and construction industry.
g. Agrarian areas: potato growing, viticulture, grain growing,
horticulture, vegetable growing, fruits and livestock. About
13-14 percent of agricultural production in the Republic of
Azerbaijan, including 80-85 percent of potatoes, 28 percent of
grapes, and 15 percent of livestock products fall to this region.
h. Areas of service: Transportation, tourism, education, etc.
Quba-Khachmaz Economic Region
a. Area: 6,96 km2.
b. Population: 525.7 thousand people.
c. Administrative districts: Shabran, Khachmaz, Guba, Gusar
and Siyazan districts.
gravel, clay, water resources, rich natural and recreational
resources.
e. Main Areas of Economy: Agriculture, Industry, Tourism
and Folk Art.
f. Industrial areas: Production, light, food.
h. Areas of service: Transportation, tourism and so on.
Nakhchivan Economic Region
a. Territory: 5.5 thousand km2.
b. Population: 439,800 people.
c. Administrative districts: Nakhchivan city, Sharur, Babek,
Ordubad, Julfa, Shahbuz, Kangarli and Sadarak regions.
d. Natural resources: Molybdenum, polymetallic ores,
stone, dolomite, marble, building materials and mineral water
resources. All the molybdenum and dolomite reserves of the
Republic of Azerbaijan and 60% of the mineral water resources
fall to the Nakhchivan economic region. There are over two
hundred mineral water reserves in the region.
e. Main areas of economics: industry, agriculture, service.
f. Industrial areas: Energy, electronics, cement, sugar,
food, aluminum plates, furniture production, silkworm, carpet
weaving and knitting.
g. Agrarian Areas: Tütuber production, viticulture, fruit
growing, vegetable growing, gourds, sugar beet production,
Service areas: Transport, tourism, science, education, etc.
Lankaran Economic Region
a. Territory: 6,07 thousand km2.
b. Population: 893,3 thousand.
c. Administrative districts: Astara, Jalilabad, Lerik, Masalli,
Yardimli and Lankaran regions.
d. Natural resources: sawdust, river stone, sand, clay, gravel,
thermalmineral waters. Seven of the 11 climatic zones in the
world are found in the area of this economic region. 26% of the
area is forest.
e. Main Areas of Economy: Agrarian Industry, Tourism.
f. Industrial areas: Food, light, forest industry.
of tea produced in the Republic of Azerbaijan, 27 percent of
vegetables, 15 percent of grain, 24 percent of potatoes, 13
percent of grapes, 10 percent of fruit falls.
h. Areas of service: Transport, tourism, education and etc.
8.Kalbajar-Dachino economic region
i. Territory: 6,4 thousand km2.
j. Population: 244,000 persons.
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k. Administrative districts: Kalbajar, Lachin, Zangilan and
Gubadli districts. All administrative regions included in the
economic region are under Armenian occupation.
l. Natural resources: Gold, mercury, marble, facing stone,
copal, perlite.
m. Main areas of economy: Agriculture, industry, tourism.
n. Industrial areas: Food and light.
o. Agrarian areas: Sheep and beef, beekeeping.
p. Areas of service: Transport, tourism 9. Shaki-Zagatala
economic region.
q. Territory: 8,96 thousand km2.
r. Population: 599,9 thousand persons.
s. Administrative districts: Balakan, Gakh, Gabala, Oghuz,
Zagatala and Sheki regions.
t. Natural resources: copper, sulfur arc, lead, zinc, gravel,
sand, building materials, water resources. All of the copper
reserves of the Republic of Azerbaijan account for 90 percent of
the sulfur pellet, 97 percent of the lead, 99 percent of the zinc.
u. Main areas of economy: Agriculture, light and food
industries, tourism.
v. Industrial areas: Light and food.
w. Agrarian areas: Tobacco, cereal, fruit growing, grain
growing, vine-growing, meat-milk and meat-wool sheep
breeding. More than 75 percent of tobacco produced in
Azerbaijan, 17 percent of grain, 35 percent of barley, and 2
percent of green tea leaf fall on this economic region.
x. Service areas: Transport, tourism and etc. 10.Tomestic
ward economic region.
y. Territory: 7.25 km2.
z. Population: 653.5 thousand.
a) Administrative districts: Agdam, Tartar, Khojavend,
Khojali, Shusha, Jabrayil, Fuzuli and the city of Khankendi.
Territories of Khojavand, Khojaly, Shusha, Jabrayil and
Khankendi towns of the economic region are completely
occupied by the Armenian occupation of Aghdam and Fuzuli
regions.
b) Natural resources: Polymetal ore deposits, building
materials, mineral waters. As Armenian occupants invaded
other riches of the economic region, they destroyed valuable
forest species in the forests and carried them to Armenia and
plundered the unique forest fauna of the region.
c) Main areas of economy: Agriculture, industry and tourism.
d) Industrial areas: Food and light.
e) Agrarian Areas: Viticulture, Grain-growing, Fruit-growing,
Tobacco, Hunting, Beekeeping, Livestock.
f) Service Areas.
Transport, Tourism and Main Regional
Development Programs
a. “State Program on Socio-Economic Development of
the Regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan (2004-2008)” (11
February 2004).
b. “ (February 27, 2006).
c. “State Program on Socio-Economic Development of the
Regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2009-2013” (April 14,
2009).
d. “In 2011-2013, the city of Baku and its State program on
socio-economic development of Baku and its suburbs in 2014-
2016 (January 17, 2014).
e. “State Program on socio-economic development of
settlements” (May 4, 2011) State Program on Socio-Economic
DEVELOPMENT for Years “(February 27, 2014).
Chlica Regional Development Programs
More than 240 orders have been signed to accelerate the socio-
economic development of cities and regions in all economic regions
during the implementation of both state programs on regional
development.
Main Results Of I And Li Regional Development
Programs
a. Development of the non-oil sector.
b. Increased business activity of the population.
c. Development of production infrastructure.
d. Improved utility services and social infrastructure.
e. Improvement of business environment.
f. Increased investment.
g. Creation of new enterprises and facilities producing
competitive and export-oriented products meeting
international requirements.
h. Reduced unemployment.
i. Reduction of poverty.
Main Results Of I And Ii Regional Development
Programs
Between 2004 and 2014in 10 years: - GDP - 3.2 times, GDP
per capita - 2.8 times, industry - 2.7 times, agriculture - 1.5 times,
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investments - 6.5 times, incomes - 6.5 times, non-oil the sector grew
2.6 times and the average annual economic growth in the country
was 12.9%. - Strategic currency reserves increased 31 times,
foreign trade turnover - 6.6 times, exports - 9.3 times, imports - 4.1
times, non-oil exports - 4.7 times. - Revenues of the state budget
increased 16 times, average monthly wages - 5.5 times, pensions -
9.6 times, deposits of population - 27 times. - Domestic investments
increased 14.6 times, investments in the non-oil sector increased
by 12.9 times and 50.7 billion mantas were allocated to the regions
through all sources.
Main Results Of I And Ii Regional Development
Programs
10 years between 2004 and 2014: - More than 1.2 million new,
including 900,000 permanent jobs, 55,600 new businesses were
created. Nearly 80 percent of newly opened jobs fell to the regions.
- In 2003, only 26.8% of the total investment in the country’s
economy was funded from domestic sources; in 2013, the share of
put into operation in 14 regions.
Baku’s Place In Azerbaijan Economy (2014)
53.4% of economic entities with legal status; 72.3% of product
output; 87.8% of industrial production; 53% of retail trade
workers in the economy; 55.6% of the population’s income.
Main Objectives Of Regional Development Policy
In e Years
a. Development of the non-oil sector in the country.
c. Further improvement of infrastructure and social services
related to rural development.
d. Accelerate the development of entrepreneurship in
the direction of production of competitive and competitive
products.
e. Increase the employment rate of the population, especially
the rural population;
f. Poverty reduction.
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1. Aras Osman Nuri, Suleymanov, Karim Mammadov (2016) Azerbaijan’s
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5. Baku (2004) State Program on Socio-Economic Development of the
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