Farmer=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s Advice: Assist Local Wheat Growers Rather than Enriching Imported Flour

11:48, March 19, 2015

Smbat Hakobyan, who's been growing wheat in the Shirak village of Anoushavan for the past twenty years, says there's a much better alternative to enriching imported flour with folic acid and iron.

Hakobyan wants the government to do more, much more, to assist domestic wheat farmers.

"Immature wheat not appropriate for food intake is being imported from Russia. It's mostly used for animal grain," says Hakobyan. "To make it acceptable for human consumption it has to mature under the sun. What's being imported is green forage wheat; the refuse of the regular harvest."  Read more... (486 words)

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