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    STATE AID TO FARMERS

    Azat Artsakh - Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR)
    29 Oct 04

    The passing year was unfavourable for agriculture in the republic,
    first of all because of lasting natural disasters - frost, hails,
    heavy rains, and later pests. The crops sown in autumn and spring
    suffered most of all. More than 1700 hectares of winter wheat was
    fully or partly damaged (in this and the following data the region of
    Kashatagh is not included), 257 hectares were hail-hit, 534 hectares
    were frozen, 532 hectares were damaged by pests and 373 hectares
    burnt. If add to this the damage caused by natural disasters to spring
    crops, fruit orchards and other perennial crops, the picture will
    become complete. On the whole, 6000 hectares of farming land under
    winter and spring crops were damaged and the material damage totaled
    5.5 billion drams. This worries the NKR government. In this situation
    the private farmer needs the direct practical assistance of the
    government. NKR minister of agriculture Benik Bakhshiyan informed our
    correspondent that only in the past two weeks NKR president Arkady
    Ghukassian held several consultations with the responsible bodies and
    tasked them with taking necessary measures to overcome the situation
    in the shortest possible time. To aid the villages which suffered most
    700 hectares of high quality seed wheat will be provided to farmers in
    the form of interest-free loan for a two-year term (totaling 130
    million drams) at the condition that during 2 years the same amount of
    wheat must be returned instead of the borrowed seed wheat. The NKR
    minister of agriculture said the distribution of wheat has already
    started and is directly controlled by the heads of the regional
    administrations. At the same time he asked the farmers to keep the
    right order of agricultural works, crop circulation, in order to avoid
    losses and maintain a basis for reproduction of arable crops and have
    an effective yield.

    AA.
    29-10-2004
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