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Türkiye and Azerbaijan open forestry centre and nursery in Karabakh
Türkiye and Azerbaijan have completed an international forestry centre and nursery in Jabrayil, in the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.
The facility, built on 11.4 hectares, was launched as a joint project to support Karabakh’s restoration.
Its nursery has capacity to produce 2 million saplings each year.
The centre can provide residential, classroom and practical forestry training to 400 people annually.
The work covers seed and sapling production, tree planting, forest rehabilitation, protection and fire response.
A separate 65-hectare Friendship Forest project has already seen trees planted, including 57,000 saplings sent from Türkiye in 2022 and 2023.
The new facility is intended to support reforestation and share forestry expertise in Azerbaijan and other Turkic countries.
Türkiye and Azerbaijan have completed an international forestry training centre and nursery in Cebrayil, in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region.
The 11.4-hectare site has capacity to produce 2 million seedlings a year.
Its training centre can provide theoretical and practical forestry training to 400 people annually.
The facility is intended to support Karabakh’s reforestation and cooperation on forestry across Azerbaijan and the Turkic world.
- Who
- Türkiye and Azerbaijan.
- What
- They completed an international forestry training centre and nursery. The nursery can produce 2 million seedlings a year.
- When
- The facility was completed on 12 October 2026.
- Where
- Cebrayil district, in Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region.
- Why
- To support Karabakh’s reforestation and forestry training, and to promote shared expertise.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Türkiye’s and Azerbaijan’s presidents laid the foundation for the facility.
Azerbaijan completed planting 57,000 seedlings of 18 species sent from Türkiye for a 65-hectare Friendship Forest project.
The facility was completed.
- Site area
- 11.4 hectares
- Annual nursery capacity
- 2 million seedlings
- Annual training capacity
- 400 people
- Solar system
- 400 kilowatts, intended to meet 50% of the site’s electricity needs
- Training centre building
- Three floors and 2,800 square metres of indoor space