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Herbs Continue to Be Imported from Armenia
http://karabakh-open.info/en/societyen/2719-en558
Saturday, 15 December 2012 12:10
It gradually becomes more and more difficult to find local herbs in
Stepanakert, both greengroceries and the market mainly sell herbs
imported from Armenia.
In such an agricultural country that we have we are supposed to face
the opposite picture but, you see, the imported herbs and vegetables
prevail in our market.
There are quite many villagers who also buy herbs in the capital.
`Local herbs are rarely met because rural inhabitants are idle to
work, they avoid cultivating the land, the reason is mainly their
desire of easy life,' Mr. Artur, whom we met in one of the vegetable
stores of the capital, notes with regret.
`My relatives avoid greeting me, I am ashamed of this but the great
need of money makes me sell herbs in the street because my pension
hardly suffices to pay for the communal public services,' says
68-year-old Mrs. Seda who makes her living from selling herbs.
Surprisingly enough, local herbs are more expensive that the Armenian
ones, a bunch of local herbs costs 200 drams whereas the Armenian ones
are sold for 150 drams per one bunch. `Customers mainly prefer the
local ones as the ones imported are inferior in taste and freshness,'
some sellers of herbs and vegetables say.
P.S. Unfortunately, herbs are not an exception, in spite of the yearly
increasing amounts of money invested in the sphere of agriculture
vegetables and herbs continue to be imported from Armenia. Whereas it
should have been the opposite way round as on different occasions it
is always mentioned that if the lands in Karabakh are properly
cultivated it will be possible to meet the existing demand in Armenia
as well.
Tatevik Khachatryan
http://karabakh-open.info/en/societyen/2719-en558
Saturday, 15 December 2012 12:10
It gradually becomes more and more difficult to find local herbs in
Stepanakert, both greengroceries and the market mainly sell herbs
imported from Armenia.
In such an agricultural country that we have we are supposed to face
the opposite picture but, you see, the imported herbs and vegetables
prevail in our market.
There are quite many villagers who also buy herbs in the capital.
`Local herbs are rarely met because rural inhabitants are idle to
work, they avoid cultivating the land, the reason is mainly their
desire of easy life,' Mr. Artur, whom we met in one of the vegetable
stores of the capital, notes with regret.
`My relatives avoid greeting me, I am ashamed of this but the great
need of money makes me sell herbs in the street because my pension
hardly suffices to pay for the communal public services,' says
68-year-old Mrs. Seda who makes her living from selling herbs.
Surprisingly enough, local herbs are more expensive that the Armenian
ones, a bunch of local herbs costs 200 drams whereas the Armenian ones
are sold for 150 drams per one bunch. `Customers mainly prefer the
local ones as the ones imported are inferior in taste and freshness,'
some sellers of herbs and vegetables say.
P.S. Unfortunately, herbs are not an exception, in spite of the yearly
increasing amounts of money invested in the sphere of agriculture
vegetables and herbs continue to be imported from Armenia. Whereas it
should have been the opposite way round as on different occasions it
is always mentioned that if the lands in Karabakh are properly
cultivated it will be possible to meet the existing demand in Armenia
as well.
Tatevik Khachatryan