Wednesday, 19 June
Agriculture

News Syunik Villages Sustain Hail Damage

11:46 | June 11, 2013
On June 10, fruit trees and other crops in several communities in the southern Armenian province of Syunik sustained hail damage.

News Villagers Welcome Government Seed Allocation but ReallyWant Loan Freeze

12:21 | May 30, 2013
In lieu of compensation for the widespread May 12 hailstorm damage to local farmers, the RA Ministry of Agriculture has allocated 87 million AMD worth of seeds to the Armavir Provincial Administration.

News Lori Mayors Say Hail Damage Double the Figure Cited by Minister

18:48 | May 27, 2013
While the RA Ministry of Agriculture puts the May 25 hailstorm damage suffered by the fields of the Lori Agarak and Ledjan communities at 40%, local residents estimate that the figure is closer to 70-80%.

Articles Prime Minister Sargsyan Builds House in Village with No Municipal Office

11:17 | May 27, 2013
Residents of Kotayk's Nournous village point to the private house being built by Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan as a "must see" local attraction. This fact was noted to us by a villager who lives opposite the sprawling house as we passed by.

News Agricultural Expert: Armenia's Hail Cannons Ineffective and Outdated

12:38 | May 21, 2013
Hrach Berberyan, president of the Village Agrarian Union, told reporters today that his organization estimates that recent hailstorms caused $35-40 million worth of damage to some 17-20,000 hectares of cropland in Armenia.

News Hailstorm Hit Farmers: "We want the government to freeze our loan payments"

13:37 | May 17, 2013
Representatives of 47 rural communities whose plantings were wiped out in a recent hailstorm scoffed at government assistance proposals, labelling them as insufficient and ill-targeted.

News Departing Swiss Ambassador: $8 Million to Promote Farming in Syunik

15:07 | May 14, 2013
Ambassador Obolensky noted that Switzerland will be investing $8 million to promote farming operations in Syunik Province. This compares to last year’s investment of $4 million.

Articles Son of Former President Robert Kocharyan is Biggest Landowner in Talvorik

14:03 | May 14, 2013
It turns out that Sedrak Kocharyan, eldest son of former RA President Robert Kocharyan, is the largest landowner in Talvorik.

News Armavir Villagers Close Roads; Demand Hail Compensation

14:26 | May 13, 2013
Yesterday’s hail damaged crops and fruit trees in some 39 communities in Armenia’s Armavir Province according to initial reports from the field

News Ministry Advises Villagers to Irrigate, but There's No Water

17:06 | April 24, 2013
While the RA Ministry of Agriculture has advised villagers to use smoke and irrigation to counter the weather conditions, local residents complain that there has been no water to irrigate what’s left of the crop.

News Ararat Valley Apricots: Too Early to Predict Temperature Drop Effect

13:24 | March 27, 2013
On the night of March 24, temperatures in the Ararat Valley dropped by three degree in some areas and experts are now wondering how this will affect blossoming apricot trees.

News Armenia Announces In-Depth Census of Agricultural Sector Resources

14:58 | January 22, 2013
Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan stated today the government has drafted a long-term plan of action to develop the agricultural sector in Armenia and that this mandates an in-depth census of agricultural lands, livestock, equipment, facilities and other resources.

News Third Farmer's Market Opens in Yerevan

12:32 | December 22, 2012
150 growers from practically all of Armenia’s regions will be on hand to sell their produce to Yerevan residents in the run-up to the holidays.

News FAO Specialists to Help Deal with Potato Moth Outbreak in Armenia

15:06 | November 23, 2012
Armenia has called in specialists from the International Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to assist in measures seeking to stem the spreading of the potato moth from the rural community of Darakert.

Articles Wheat Defecit: Bread Prices Jump in Lori

11:57 | October 31, 2012
Grigor Hakobyan, Chief of the Agricultural and Environmental Department at the Lori Regional Authority, told Hetq that only 6,000 hectares of the 42,000 registered as “arable land” has received a fall planting of wheat.

News Government Backs Oshakan Bridge to Span Kasakh Gorge

12:34 | October 23, 2012
Armenian PM Tigran Sargsyan has given the green light for the government financing to build a bridge spanning the Kasakh River gorge in the village of Oshakan, just south of the town of Ashtarak.

Articles Corrupt Land Grab Forces Many to Leave Armenian Border Village of Koutakan

12:45 | October 20, 2012
Koutakan Mayor Aharon Abrahamyan says that 500 hectares of the community’s 1,230 hectares was privatized back in the early 1990s. The land was divided up amongst 40 families. Another 700 hectares was leased to twelve individuals.

Investigation “The Harm of Pesticides is up to the Knees, the Effect -up to the Neck”

13:35 | July 26, 2012
This is the opinion of Ashot Aslanyan, a farmer from Meghri. He also adds that he is talking about those pesticides, which are effective and are not of an unknown origin. He says that it is more than three decades that he is engaged in fruit growing, and notes that year over year the effect of pesticides necessary for use is decreasing, and often even after one or two usages the result is not satisfactory.

Articles Farmer Simon Jamalyan: "Government must recognize villagers and the land as national treasures"

16:57 | July 23, 2012
Simon became teary eyed when he spoke about the plight of the land and the villagers who work it. He made an open plea to the government to regard the land and the village farmers as the salt of the earth and “national treasures”, since they keep the country afloat.

News State Committee Allegation in Misinformation Ungrounded

15:15 | July 20, 2012
Water has turned into something valuable, more valuable than life. Beneath our eyes, two Geghamavan villagers slipped down on ropes to Sevan-Hrazdan canal, took water with buckets and poured it into narrow pipe, which runs to their land areas. The speed of water running through the canal is very high, canal walls are smooth, while its depth is 7-10 meters. If you fall into canal, it’s almost impossible to survive. Old villagers assured us that since opening of the canal more than 50 people drowned there.

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