HEAVY HARVEST IS A PROBLEM
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[01:47 pm] 20 September, 2007
All villages of Armavir region are occupied with vine growing. All
residents of Sovetakan village in the same region earn their livings
by vine growing. There are about 30 farms in the mentioned village,
which purveyed grapes in tones. For an experienced vine-grower Zhirayr
Gharagozyan it was a better year for the corps than he expected. He
collected about 15 tones of grapes and does not know what to do with
the harvest.
"I signed an agreement with the factory for three tones during
the years of drought. Last year was also good for the corps and
I purveyed 4 tones more than we agreed. But the factory does not
purchase since the harvest is very heavy this year in all regions",
said Uncle Zhirayr to "A1+"
His neighbor Ararat Darbinyan is also content with the harvest this
year. He expects more than 17 tones of corps, but has an agreement
for 13 tones.
"This year only one sort of grapes was harmed, but we managed to
fertilize them on time and hope that the harvest will be good",
said the vine-grower Ararat.
Although these are the last days to purvey grapes, they say that the
ripped grapes should have 17-19 degrees of sweetness, so that the
factory will buy it and the grapes will ripe to this sweetness only
next week.
"During the soviet period they accepted the harvest even if it was
not that sweet and added some water to it, but now they accept only
properly ripped corps so that the wine would be of high quality",
explained Uncle Zhirayr.
The residents of the village warn their relatives, neighbors and
friends to come and help them to collect the harvest in one day, to
load it on lorries, take to the factory and purvey it and return home
as they do it every year. Only this year factories do not purchase
more than the half of the harvest and the villagers do not know what
to do with it, since as Uncle Zhirayr said: "Heavy harvest is also
a problem".
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
