Syunik=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s Kornidzor Village: Once Fertile Fields Lie Fallow

13:54, June 24, 2015

Mariam Matevosyan

Residents of Kornidzor, a village of some 1,300 souls in Armenia's southern Syunik Province, say they had bountiful fields in the Soviet era and that agriculture was their main source of income.

Today, they lament the fact that most of their fields remain uncultivated and overgrown.

Community head Arkadya Khachatryan says that the village used to supply the entire are with vegetables. Now, he says, produce amounts have fallen, partly due to the fact that it cannot be sold. Most of the produce is sold in neighboring Artsakh.

1,043 hectares of the community's 1,224 hectares of cultivable land is in private hands. The rest is leased. Wheat, barley, potatoes, and recently peas and chickpeas, are the main crops. A fledgling hothouse sector has always started.  Read more... (491 words)

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