One year after a spring snowstorm destroyed many of its fruit crops, Armenia will reap a bumper harvest of apricots, a major agricultural product, and export a large part of it to Russia this summer, Agriculture Minister Sergo Karapetian said on Friday.
Karapetian met with senior executives of food exporting and processing firms to discuss their unfolding wholesale purchases from tens of thousands of apricot farmers mainly concentrated in the Ararat Valley south and west of Yerevan.
"We expect a plentiful harvest this year," the Armenian Agriculture Ministry quoted him as telling them. "Harvesting work is already underway and processing companies must be prepared to properly organize [apricot] purchases."
Karapetian pledged to assist them in that endeavor, the ministry said in a statement.
Armenian News
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