Editing Azerbaijan (section)

===Agriculture===
{{main|Agriculture in Azerbaijan}}
Azerbaijan has the largest agricultural basin in the region. About 54.9 percent of Azerbaijan is agricultural land.<ref name="STA"/> At the beginning of 2007 there were 4,755,100&nbsp;hectares of used agricultural area.<ref name="AG">
{{cite web
 |title=Natural resources
 |publisher=The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan
 |url=http://www.azstat.org/publications/azfigures/2007/en/003.shtml
 |access-date=26 May 2007
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610085820/http://www.azstat.org/publications/azfigures/2007/en/003.shtml
 |archive-date=10 June 2007
 |url-status=dead
}}
</ref> In the same year the total wood resources counted 136&nbsp;million m<sup>3</sup>.<ref name="AG"/> Agricultural scientific research institutes are focused on meadows and pastures, horticulture and subtropical crops, green vegetables, [[viticulture]] and [[Azerbaijani wine|wine-making]], cotton growing and [[medicinal plants]].<ref>
{{cite web
 |title=Azerbaijan: Status of Database
 |publisher=Central Asia and Caucasus Institute
 |url=http://www.cac-biodiversity.org/aze/aze_database.htm
 |access-date=28 May 2007
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070320100930/http://www.cac-biodiversity.org/aze/aze_database.htm
 |archive-date=20 March 2007
}}
</ref> In some areas it is profitable to grow grain, potatoes, [[sugar beet]]s, cotton<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/child-labor/azerbaijan.htm
|title=Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor – Azerbaijan
|access-date=4 July 2015
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514143610/http://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/child-labor/azerbaijan.htm
|archive-date=14 May 2015
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> and tobacco. Livestock, dairy products, and wine and [[Distilled spirit|spirits]] are also important farm products. The Caspian [[fishing industry]] concentrates on the dwindling stocks of [[sturgeon]] and [[Beluga (sturgeon)|beluga]]. In 2002 the Azerbaijani [[merchant marine]] had 54 ships.<!--<ref>
{{cite web
 |title=Azerbaijan: Transportation
 |publisher=Encyclopedia of the Nations
 |url=http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Azerbaijan-TRANSPORTATION.html
 |access-date=24 May 2007
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418210415/http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Azerbaijan-TRANSPORTATION.html
 |archive-date=18 April 2007
 |url-status=live
}}
</ref>-->

Some products previously imported from abroad have begun to be produced locally. Among them are Coca-Cola by Coca-Cola Bottlers LTD., beer by Baki-Kastel, parquet by Nehir and oil pipes by EUPEC Pipe Coating Azerbaijan.<ref>
{{cite web
 |title=Industry
 |publisher=Statistical Yearbook of Azerbaijan 2004
 |url=http://www.azstat.org/publications/yearbook/SYA2004/Pdf/18en.pdf
 |access-date=26 May 2007
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070202100114/http://www.azstat.org/publications/yearbook/SYA2004/Pdf/18en.pdf
 |archive-date=2 February 2007
 |url-status=dead
}}
</ref>