AZNAR CJSC NAMED AFTER TEYMUR AKHMEDOV

The history of Azerbaijan is inseparably linked to the culture of pomegranate cultivation, going back deep into centuries. Traditionally, pomegranates have been cultivated almost in every region of Azerbaijan. The pomegranates growing in the Geokchai district, are most often used for juice production.
Goychay pomegranates have got an international recognition and became a synonym of the true Azerbaijani pomegranates. The secret of magnificent taste and guaranteed quality of the Geokchai pomegranates is a unique area microclimate and soil composition, which is not seen anywhere else in the world.
Since long, local residents squeezed juice from pomegranates, but in the absence of conditions for storage they were forced to extract juice concentrate by boiling and use as a sauce, now widely known as narsharab.
The modern history of pomegranate juice has begun in the sixties past century, when a factory to produce tinned fruit juice was set up on the basis of an inter-district procurement agency in the Goychay district of the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic. Its founder and the first director was Timur Faradzh ogly Akhmedov, who has filled his name in many nice pages in the history of the republican agriculture, having laid the basis of fruit juices production in Azerbaijan. Starting with apple and tomato juice, he was the first to suggest to process pomegranate and quince, and in 1978 his factory was awarded with a medal at the Erfrut-78 International exhibition (Germany) for the pomegranate juice. Timur Akhmedov was a true patriot of the land and its ruby pomegranates, he had a dream that people everywhere in the country - and all over the world would get to know and love the taste of pomegranate juice. His efforts has helped creating new specialized pomegranate state farms, old pomegranates plantations were extended and new ones were set to cultivate the best selection brands of pomegranates, which has served as an impulse for wider cultivation of pomegranates both in Goychay, and in the adjacent areas.
By 1984, the factory products were already supplied to all republics and regions of the USSR and many countries of the world, winning prestigious awards at the largest international contests.

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