Our produce gets spoilt before it gets to the shop

Our produce gets spoilt before it gets to the shop

19-03-2007 12:43:42 – KarabakhOpen

The land liberated through sacrifices cannot be returned, and freedom cannot
be given away. We fought for freedom, and it was the most important thing
for us. Arkady Arzumanyan, a 73-year-old inhabitant of the village of Togh,
Hadrut region, began with these words.

He thinks we cannot exchange freedom for promises. But we need a government
which is able to defend our independence, says the former director of the
village school, father of four children, one of them killed in war.

Now he lives in the neighboring village of Mokhrenes with his other son who
is a teacher.
`I live with the family of my son. We work hard to earn our living. We work
the land, we grow wheat, vegetables, we keep cows, hens,’ Arkady Arzumanyan
says. `I think the state of the villages will improve if the population of
Stepanakert becomes 200 thousand ` we will be able to sell our products,’ he
says.

`Our produce gets spoilt in the field. There are no processing factories, no
canneries. The government should think about it,’ he says.