In the metropolitan administrative district of Arabkir on the square in front of the square adjacent to the street. Kasyana, last weekend, the fair of agricultural products continued its work.
The fact that such a fair is needed is said for a long time and more than once. It was also said that it was necessary to put an end to the dominance of the resellers who resell exacerbations in the markets of farmers, which must be given the opportunity to sell their products themselves, and consumers – to buy the goods first -hand. But then the matter, unfortunately, did not go further than the conversation.
On the last Sunday, the Ministry of Agriculture finally carried out the plan. With a large coincidence of the people, with songs and dancing the fair was opened. Music and songs, of course, are good, but not all visitors to the fair with enthusiasm accepted the innovation. And there were reasons. According to eyewitnesses, prices at the fair were almost no different from prices in the capital’s markets. In addition, by 11 am the shelves were almost empty. This fact was recognized by the Minister of Agriculture with. Karapetyan, explaining it by the fact that in the early morning many resellers purchased a large number of products at low prices, after which farmers inflated prices. The minister promised that all the omissions would be taken into account, and the attempts of resellers to purchase goods for resale – to be hard to suppress.
How the situation has changed compared to the first fair day, and whether the “debut” misses were really taken into account and eliminated, the Corr found out on the second Sunday. “DE”.
Already on the approaches to the fair it became clear that despite some flaws the initiative of the Ministry of Agriculture, most Yerevans still came to their heart.
And although literally a two steps, at the opposite end of the square there is a small market operating for many years, the people rushed to the fair. Vegetables, fruits, berries, honey, wine, living fish – more than 40 types of agricultural products (except meat) were represented at the fair from almost all regions of the country. And all the fresher, collected literally the day before and brought to the capital early in the morning. As for prices, there was a certain scatter. Yes, there were, say, peaches for 300-400 drams, but you could buy the same for 200-250 drams. And, not an example of the last year, there was a large selection of local apples. And unlike last year’s transcendental prices, the Demirchyan and Golden varieties could be bought for 150-400 drams-this year, it was apparently that there was an excellent. And one farmer offered only 350 drams not quite familiar huge apples with a pink-orange tint. To my question, what is the name of this variety, the peasant found it difficult to answer, but said with confidence that this is a “Syrian” variety. In general, we can state that the factor of the “first -hand” here was crucial.
