{"id":275081,"date":"2016-10-12T13:02:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T09:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=275081"},"modified":"2016-10-12T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T09:02:35","slug":"unpaid-grape-farmers-to-demand-payment-from-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/10\/12\/unpaid-grape-farmers-to-demand-payment-from-prime-minister.html","title":{"rendered":"Unpaid Grape Farmers to Demand Payment from Prime Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tGrape farmers of the village of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/08\/29\/armenian-farmer-says-hed-sooner-throw-grapes-away-than-sell-to-wineries.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">Kaghtsrashen<\/span><\/a><\/strong> in Armenia&#39;s&nbsp;Ararat province are still waiting to be paid for the produce purchased from them last fall by a local winery. Speaking to Epress.am Wednesday, vine-grower Zakar Petrosyan said that Vinar paid a small portion of the debt in August and still owes him AMD 520 thousand (over $1000).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis year, according to Zakaryan, none of the Kaghtsrashen farmers sold even a kilogram of grapes to the winery. &ldquo;The harvest this year was not as rich; some of the farmers sold their produce to exporting companies, while the majority took it straight to the markets. As for me, I don&rsquo;t even intend to harvest the remaining of my grapes,&rdquo; the farmer said.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Most of the villagers are currently busy with harvest, but we plan to resume our protests in the coming days. We&rsquo;ll most likely appeal to the new prime minister this time, see if we can get our money from him. No one cares about the villagers and their problems anymore,&rdquo; Zakaryan added.&nbsp;<\/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>This year, according to Zakaryan, none of the Kaghtsrashen farmers sold even a kilogram of grapes to the winery. \u201cThe harvest this year was not as rich; some of the farmers sold their produce to exporting companies&#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":275077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,65979],"tags":[65319,64583,64584],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275081"}],"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=275081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}