The Armenian National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Territorial Administration, Local Self-Government, Agriculture and Environment gave a thumbs-down to a proposal that the government should purchase all the crops grown in the country’s border communities.

The government, according to the draft, would dictate what crops would be grown and the price to be paid.

 According to the draft, the types of guaranteed crop products, their quality criteria, the model form of the guaranteed purchase contract, as well as the unit price of the guaranteed product to be purchased, shall be determined by the Government for each year until September 1 of the previous year.

Bill cosponsor MP Sofia Hovsepyan said that the bill is designed to stem the outflow of people from border communities.