{"id":265328,"date":"2015-05-26T14:19:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T10:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=265328"},"modified":"2015-05-26T14:21:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T10:21:16","slug":"armenian-farmers-rely-on-president-and-prime-minister-for-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/05\/26\/armenian-farmers-rely-on-president-and-prime-minister-for-compensation.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Farmers Rely on President and Prime Minister for Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tFarmers in the town of Narek in the Ararat Province of Armenia, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2015\/05\/25\/hail-damages-orchards-in-ararat-province-towns-in-need-of-anti-hail-stations.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">have lost close to half of their crop to hail<\/span><\/a>, believe that the issue of compensation can be solved only by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, or Prime Minister Hovik Abrahamyan, a Narek resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said in a phone conversation with Epress.am. According to the source, the farmers do not pin their hopes on the officials from the district administration and the Ministry of Agriculture.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn Sunday, May 24, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Samvel Galstyan and vice-governor of Ararat province Ashot Vardanyan arrived in Narek to assess the damage caused due to the hailstorm on May 23; however, the officials did not mention anything about a compensation.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe farmers recalled that in 2014, when they lost their harvest due to frost, the government decided to free them from land taxes. &ldquo;Although this offer would be pointless now. People have suffered AMD 2-3 millions in damages; the land tax is AMD 6-7 thousand,&rdquo; the source said.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn Monday, May 25, the residents of Narek held a protest demanding compensation for their losses.&nbsp;After the rally, a working group came to the town, led by a department head in the Ministry of Agriculture, in order to assess the damage and send the results to the regional administration.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, May 25, the residents of Narek held a protest demanding compensation for their losses. After the rally, a working group, led by a department head in the Ministry of Agriculture, in order to assess&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18968,27815,61357,61356,28908,56789],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}