“A kilogram of tomatoes costs 600 drams, and cucumbers 500-550 drams.” Oscar Sargsyan |: Press

Journalist Oskan Sargsyan’s Facebook post. “July is coming to an end, and in Yerevan a kilogram of tomatoes costs 600 AMD, and cucumbers cost 500-550 AMD. They are sold at the price of citrus fruits, and in fact, tomatoes and cucumbers have become citrus fruits in Armenia; the communist government abolished the Ministry of Agriculture in an agricultural country. There is no state insurance for agriculture, no hail protection stations have been installed, there is a serious shortage of irrigation water, and preferential agricultural loans have been cancelled, resulting in high prices for agricultural products such as cucumbers and tomatoes. Today, Nikol Pashinyan is checking the well-equipped Margara checkpoint on the Armenian-Turkish border. As soon as the border opens, cheap Turkish tomatoes and cucumbers will devastate Armenian farms.”