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    PROTESTING VARDENIS FARMERS' PROPERTY FROZEN BECAUSE OF ACCUMULATED DEBTS

    07.17.2014 16:51 epress.am

    Several dozen farmers from Vardenis held a protest outside the Armenian
    government building today, demanding a meeting with RA Prime Minister
    Hovik Abrahamyan.

    Speaking to Epress.am, they said that, a 2011 government decision led
    the Ministry of Agriculture to import substandard seeds, which do not
    yield crops, resulting in the property and assets of 150 farmers to
    be frozen because of their accumulated debts.

    "The wheat didn't sprout; we've repeatedly proven that the the
    seed agency deceived us. They were supposed to import the 970 tons
    of autumn sowing, high-quality seeds from Seeds of Stavropol, but,
    breaching the decision, instead they imported it from [the Russian]
    United Grain Company -- the Control Chamber recorded the violations
    in 2012. They distributed the seeds for us to return them later,
    but that year there was a drought, they didn't grow. The next year
    we planted the same [seeds] again, the weather was favorable, but it
    turned out the seeds were substandard," one of the farmers, Vardan
    Hayrapetyan, informed Epress.am.

    Protesting farmer Gagik Yeghiazaryan said that the Ministry of
    Agriculture is not promising any solutions to the issue, keeping
    them waiting for years, but today they came to get an answer from
    the government.

    "What I have [my property] is frozen; I took on expenses, I burned
    the field so that I can plant, but I don't have seeds. I can't
    take out a loan, at least to buy seeds. The field awaits, empty,"
    said Yeghiazaryan.

    After today's cabinet meeting, the farmers met with head of the
    government's Department for Reception of Citizens and Discussion of
    Petitions Aleksandr Ghazaryan, who informed them that discussions on
    the matter are being held.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EazRZV9t6M
    http://www.epress.am/en/2014/07/17/protesting-vardenis-farmers-property-frozen-because-of-accumulated-debts.html

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