HEAVY HARVEST IS A PROBLEM
Support A1+!All villages of Armavir region are occupied with vine growing. All residents of Sovetakan village in the same region earn their livings by vine growing. There are about 30 farms in the mentioned village, which purveyed grapes in tones. For an experienced vine-grower Zhirayr Gharagozyan it was a better year for the corps than he expected. He collected about 15 tones of grapes and does not know what to do with the harvest.
“I signed an agreement with the factory for three tones during the years of drought. Last year was also good for the corps and I purveyed 4 tones more than we agreed. But the factory does not purchase since the harvest is very heavy this year in all regions”, said Uncle Zhirayr to “A1+”
His neighbor Ararat Darbinyan is also content with the harvest this year. He expects more than 17 tones of corps, but has an agreement for 13 tones.
“This year only one sort of grapes was harmed, but we managed to fertilize them on time and hope that the harvest will be good”, said the vine-grower Ararat. Although these are the last days to purvey grapes, they say that the ripped grapes should have 17-19 degrees of sweetness, so that the factory will buy it and the grapes will ripe to this sweetness only next week.
“During the soviet period they accepted the harvest even if it was not that sweet and added some water to it, but now they accept only properly ripped corps so that the wine would be of high quality”, explained Uncle Zhirayr.
The residents of the village warn their relatives, neighbors and friends to come and help them to collect the harvest in one day, to load it on lorries, take to the factory and purvey it and return home as they do it every year. Only this year factories do not purchase more than the half of the harvest and the villagers do not know what to do with it, since as Uncle Zhirayr said: “Heavy harvest is also a problem”.
