It’s already 5 days that in the poorest region of Armenia Shirak the price of bread increased by 10-20 AMD. Today speaking on wheat harvest, the minister of agriculture said: “The estimate of the harvest of wheat is a bit lower this year, but the general harvest is more than previous year.”
The journalists inquired from the minister why the prices rise in such case. “ You know that such climate didn’t happen to be in Armenia during recent years, we had lack of water, moisture. The rise of prices is an international tendency. The prices are set in the market, we cannot dictate the villager, the trader that this year the prices are higher. We have domestic market, but with local 440 thousand tons of wheat, we import 250-300 thousand tons as well. Thus, we also depend on outer trends.”
The minister noted that the government covers 60% of food demand of RA.
