{"id":275135,"date":"2016-10-17T14:08:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=275135"},"modified":"2016-10-17T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:08:12","slug":"low-wholesale-prices-could-lead-armenias-potato-farmers-to-bankruptcy-opposition-mp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/10\/17\/low-wholesale-prices-could-lead-armenias-potato-farmers-to-bankruptcy-opposition-mp-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Low Wholesale Prices Could Lead Armenia&#8217;s Potato Farmers to Bankruptcy, Opposition MP Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Residents of the town of Vardenis in Armenia&#39;s Gegharkunik province and nearby villages blocked <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2016\/10\/14\/%D5%BE%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A4%D5%A5%D5%B6%D5%AB%D5%BD%D6%81%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A8-%D5%A2%D5%B8%D5%B2%D5%B8%D6%84%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4-%D5%A5%D5%B6-%D5%BA%D5%B6%D6%8A%D5%AB-%D5%BD%D5%A1%D5%B0%D5%B4.html\"><span style=\"color:#000080;\">late last week<\/span><\/a><\/strong> the Vardenis-Karvachar segment of the Vardenis-Martakert highway to protest against the falling price of potatoes. According to the farmers, wholesale pricing of potatoes largely depends on the price agreement between the country&#39;s Ministry of Defense and its suppliers, and this year the price is unprecedentedly low at 35-40 drams. The Ministry, the protesters said, should ensure that its suppliers purchase potatoes for at least 55-60 drams per kilogram so that the market stabilizes and farmers are able to make minimal profit.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpeaking from the floor of the National Assembly today, opposition Armenian National Congress faction member Nikol Pashinyan, who went to meet with the demonstrators on Friday, stated that Armenia&#39;s potato farmers have a high risk of going bankrupt if the Defense Ministry does not find a solution to the problem soon. The lawmaker added that he had phoned the Ministry earlier and found out that it purchased potatoes from its suppliers for 80-104 drams per kilogram, while the suppliers, for their part, bought it from farmers for as low as 40-45 drams.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;I think that this is a very serious problem that requires an intervention from the National Assembly&#39;s leadership and lawmakers. We should hold negotiations with the Defense Ministry because the villagers are once again on the verge of bankruptcy,&rdquo; the oppositionist said.<\/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>Speaking from the floor of the National Assembly today, opposition Armenian National Congress faction member Nikol Pashinyan, who went to meet with the demonstrators on Friday, stated that Armenia&#8217;s potato farmers have &#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":275127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,66047,66058,65979],"tags":[25870,15418,65582,53896],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275135"}],"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=275135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}