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    ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER VISITS IN GEGHARKUNIK REGION TO OBSERVE WHEAT HARVESTING

    ARKA
    Sep 1, 2011

    YEREVAN, September 1. / ARKA /. Armenian prime minister Tigran
    Sarkisian visited today a farm in the village of Lchashen in
    Gegharkunik region to observe wheat harvesting. The seeds had been
    earlier provided to this farm free as part of a government program
    to boos grain production.

    Tigran Sarkisian watched harvesting of wheat and sugar beet on a farm
    belonging to Ranchpar company. He also talked with local residents.

    According to Ranchpar director Onik Sargsyan, the government provided
    it with 6 tons of wheat seeds on condition that it returns 12 tons
    after gathering this year's crop.

    "Thanks to elite seeds we could collect an average 5 tons of wheat
    per hectare, twice as much as we used to gather in the past," he said,
    adding that they used organic fertilizers to grow the crop.

    Ranchpar owns 50 hectares of irrigated land cultivating sugar beets,
    potatoes, cabbage, carrots and wheat..

    In 2010 the government released $1.5 million for import of 1000 tons
    of elite wheat seeds to ease the country's heavy dependence on wheat
    imports. The government bought another 500 tons from domestic farmers.

    All 1,450 tons were distributed free among farms that have no less
    than 7 hectares of land.

    Officials say Armenian farmers should be able to meet more than half
    of the demand already in 2013. The country annually consumes up to
    650,000 tons of food grains and relies on import for nearly two thirds
    of its grain consumption.

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