{"id":274732,"date":"2016-09-15T18:12:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=274732"},"modified":"2016-09-15T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:14:11","slug":"armenian-winery-again-fails-to-pay-local-grape-farmers%e2%80%99-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/09\/15\/armenian-winery-again-fails-to-pay-local-grape-farmers%e2%80%99-money.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Winery Again Fails to Pay Local Grape Farmers\u2019 Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Vayots Dzor governor Harutyun Sargsyan again failed to ensure that the grape farmers of the village of Aghavnadzor are paid for the produce purchased from them last year. During a September 15 meeting with the grape-growers, the governor said that the country&rsquo;s Prime Minister had recently changed and the villagers had to therefore wait &ldquo;some more,&rdquo; farmer Kostan Stepanyan said in conversation with Epress.am<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOn September 1, dozens of Aghavnadzor grape-growers blocked the entrance to the local school in protest against Vedi Alco winery&rsquo;s continued failure to pay the money &#8211; a total of 140 million drams (nearly $295,000). Governor Sargsyan, along with Vedi Alco owner Manvel Ghazaryan, soon came to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/09\/02\/winery-promises-to-pay-boycotting-grape-farmers-money-within-two-weeks.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">meet with the protesters<\/span><\/a><\/strong> and said that he would make sure the winery paid their money by September 15. The villagers <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/09\/05\/armenian-grape-farmers-allow-village-school-to-resume-classes.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">agreed<\/span><\/a><\/strong> to temporarily stop boycotting classes but promised to resume their protest if the officials again failed to keep their word.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;The entire village had gathered to meet the governor because he had promised to resolve the issue by September 15. But he said nothing senseful; only that the government and the prime minister had changed so we had to&nbsp;wait some more time,&rdquo; Kostan Stepanyan told our reporter. He added that the villagers intended to again boycott classes tomorrow. &ldquo;We can&rsquo;t take this any more. How much longer should we put up with their lies?&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>The entire village had gathered to meet the governor because he had promised to resolve the issue by September 15. But he said nothing senseful; only that the government and the prime minister had changed&#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":274728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,65979],"tags":[65318,65319,65320],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274732"}],"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=274732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}