{"id":268195,"date":"2015-10-02T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=268195"},"modified":"2015-10-02T18:38:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:38:32","slug":"armenian-vinegrowers-suffering-losses-after-tsarukyan-owned-factory-refuses-to-procure-entire-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/10\/02\/armenian-vinegrowers-suffering-losses-after-tsarukyan-owned-factory-refuses-to-procure-entire-harvest.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Vinegrowers Suffering Losses After Tsarukyan-Owned Factory Refused to Procure Entire Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Farmers from a number of villages of Armenia&#39;s Armavir province faced a rather unpleasant surprise recently as they were told at the Amasia procurement facility of the Yerevan Ararat Brandy-Wine-Vodka Factory, owned by former leader of Prosperous Armenia Party, businessman Gagik Tsarukyan, that the factory would procure only as much grapes from the suppliers as they did last year, a villager, who wished to remain anonymous, told Epress.am Friday, October 2. Meanwhile, the farmer added, Tsarukyan visited the province last week and promised the entire grape harvest would be procured.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAccording to the interviewee, he, like many other farmers, is currently thinking what to do with the remaining produce: &ldquo;Last year I sold 2 tonnes of grapes; this year I have 7 since I&#39;ve a new vineyard. In spring, Gagik Tsarukyan [having bought the entire harvest] provided an opportunity to expand, and like many others, I obtained new vines and fertilizers on a condition that I&#8217;d pay after selling the fall harvest. So now I have an AMD 250 000 debt to pay off in addition to having to spend 70 thousand drams on harvesting and transportation. If I sell only 2 tonnes [of grapes], I won&#39;t have a penny left,&rdquo; the farmer stated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe queue in front of the procurement facility, he said, stretches for more than 500 meters, and the farmers&#39; trucks are lined up on both sides of the road: &ldquo;Some young men wander around the trucks and ask money from the farmers to move them ahead in the queue. A farmer from Getahovit village had to pay AMD 30,000 to sell his 4 tonnes of grapes as soon as possible since the procurement facility said the quality of the grapes had dropped [because of remaining in front of the facility for three days], and that he had to cut the price.&rdquo;<\/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>According to the interviewee, he, like many other farmers, is currently thinking what to do with the remaining produce: \u201cLast year I sold 2 tonnes of grapes; this year I have 7 since I&#8217;ve a new vineyard. In spring&#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":268192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16567,62627,15718,62628,62629],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268195"}],"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=268195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}