“I do know, I’m one of many “3 million prime ministers”, I walked with Pashinyan for kilometers in 2018, I blocked the highway, right this moment he has fully forgotten us.” Farmers rose up in Zolakar, it is a riot (“Hraparak”) – 2024-06-03 16:41:34

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2024-06-03 16:41:34

The massive and small farmers of Zolakar village of Gegharkunik marz have stood up, tons of potatoes and cabbage are rotting within the cellars, and the federal government isn’t serving to in any manner in consuming agricultural merchandise. Arsen Arsenyan of Zolakartsi feels cheated. He informed “Hraparak” that I knew I used to be certainly one of “3 million prime ministers”, my phrase ought to have weight, in 2018 I additionally “walked for kilometers” with Pashinyan. Now the bitter actuality has knocked on Arsen’s door: out of 100 tons of potatoes, he was in a position to promote solely 20 tons, 10 tons have already been offered, and the remaining, if he doesn’t promote it in 1-2 months, would be the share of cows and pigs. On the one hand, the handing over of Artsakh has harmed the case, irrespective of how laborious they struggle to not politicize the difficulty, it’s not working, they used to export part of potatoes to Artsakh and have been disadvantaged of that market.

“They inform the prime minister I caused the issue within the Nationwide Meeting, he solutions: it is a subject for April-Might, what are you fearful about now?” I selected that prime minister, I introduced him, I adopted him for 15 days, I blocked the highway, right this moment our prime minister has fully forgotten us. I’m additionally one of many “3 million prime ministers”, I wish to have a steady state. This can be a world drawback, if the peasant couldn’t promote his items, what ought to he reside on? The choice is to to migrate. 40 % of our village has already emigrated. If the sale of agricultural merchandise didn’t happen, a lot of the inhabitants of the area will to migrate,” Zolakartsi notes.

Arsen says, it isn’t like they determined to dam the highway abruptly, respecting the regulation, earlier than that they went to their group head, Hovhannes Hoveyan, they heard guarantees, after which they realized that the phrases of the officers contradict one another.

“First, the native authorities ought to have raised about our issues a very long time in the past, right this moment I discovered that the Prime Minister has not solved the issue since January. The mayor of the group says that he went to the governor and in addition knowledgeable him. If the Prime Minister was conscious and didn’t take any motion, with the intention to export agricultural merchandise and purchase them from the individuals, what else can we do? We must shut the highway. The Ministry of Agriculture was closed, agriculture remained ownerless and orphaned. Cabbage is imported to Armenia from Iran. There’s additionally data that Turkish cabbage involves our nation by Iran. No physique checks. In line with rumors, this product enters with out customs clearance. They convey that product, they hit the enterprise of our villager,” complains the resident of Zolakar, who’s engaged within the potato enterprise.

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