Abkhazia
Georgian aid for Abkhazia’s ravaged farmlands has mysteriously disappeared
An agricultural pest — the stink bug — has ravaged crops across western Georgia and Abkhazia this year. Aid was sent to Abkhazia by the government in Tbilisi, but people in Gali have seen no sign of these pesticides, which might possibly have saved their livelihoods. [Read in Georgian — სტატია ქართულ ენაზე] An agricultural pest The presence of the brown marmorated stink bug was first recorded in western Georgia in 2015, but significant damage to hazelnut crops was not caused until 2016
