{"id":270275,"date":"2015-12-22T19:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T15:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=270275"},"modified":"2015-12-22T19:30:55","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T15:30:55","slug":"armenian-villagers-demand-factory-pay-for-autumn-grape-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2015\/12\/22\/armenian-villagers-demand-factory-pay-for-autumn-grape-harvest.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Villagers Demand Factory Pay for Autumn Grape Harvest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Vinegrowers from the village of Kaghtsrashen in Armenia&#39;s Ararat province have yet to get paid for produce that they sold back in autumn. Earlier on Tuesday they picketed first the Armenian government building, then &ndash; the presidential residence demanding payment of the money owed.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHead of the executive&#39;s Department for Reception of Citizens and Discussion of Petitions Aleksandr Ghazaryan came out to meet the demonstrators; however, as the protesters subsequently told Epress.am, the official gave them no clear answer, and so they decided to submit an appeal letter to the president&#39;s office.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe villagers claim that the management of the wine factory of Kaghtsrashen, which has procured the villagers&#39; grape harvest, gradually lowered the price reducing it from the initial 80 drams down to 40 per kilogram. &ldquo;No matter what, we get intimidated when inside the factory. When I was last delivering produce, the buyer offered 50 drams. I said it was not enough, and he then said 40. I told him 50 was fine, but he replied that if I said another word he&#39;d send my truck back. They final offer was 40 drams, and they have yet to pay the money,&rdquo; one of the protesters said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe factory, the demonstrators added, has promised the money would be paid in the spring of next year; however, no specific payment dates had been mentioned in the villagers&#39; initial sales agreements. The villagers appealed to Ararat governor Rubik Abrahamyan who said they&#39;d receive the money on December 15. Finally, after yet another unfulfilled promise, the farmers decided to stage protests in Yerevan.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNote, according to local media reports, Kaghtsrashen&#39;s wine factory belongs to lawmaker Karo Karapetyan.<\/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>The factory, the demonstrators added, has promised the money would be paid in the spring of next year; however, no specific payment dates had been mentioned in the villagers&#8217; initial &#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":270253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15718,62661,28908,62662,27897,62645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270275"}],"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=270275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}