Wednesday, September 9 2020 15:45

ArmInfo. The Ministry of Economy of Armenia continues to carry out visits to processing enterprises during the grape-harvesting season. According to the  press service of the department, this time representatives of the  Ministry of Economy headed by Deputy Minister Arman Khojoyan left for  the Ararat region, where they visited the Proshyan Brandy Factory,  Yeraskh Wine Factory and MAP CJSC.

During the visits, the importance of effective organization of  reception, weighing and quality control of grapes purchased from  villagers was noted. It is reported that representatives of the  ministry spoke with winegrowers, who voiced their concerns and spoke  about existing problems.

Arman Khojoyan noted that inspections of processing enterprises will  be carried out constantly, and in a more active period specialists  will be attached to the points of purchase of grapes for daily  control over this process.

"By carrying out control at the grape harvesting points, we aim to  familiarize ourselves with the ongoing processes on site to make sure  whether the weights have been checked. In addition, we will check the  documents, which will allow us to make the non-technological  processes at the enterprises more controllable," said the deputy  minister.

According to the RA Statistical Committee, in 2019, the gross grape  harvest in Armenia amounted to 217.5 thousand tons, which is 21%  higher than a year ago. At the same time, the sown area of grapes in  the reporting year increased by 2.5% - up to 16.5 thousand hectares.  Unfortunately, statistics on sown areas and gross crop yields in  Armenia are published with a great delay, in particular, the results  of 2019 published on the website of the Statistical Committee on  August 24 this year.

According to the RA Customs Service, in the 1st half of 2020. Armenia  exported 1.3 thousand tons of grapes, with a y-o-y decline of 26.6%.  At the same time, the customs value decreased in the first half of  the year by 37.5% per annum - to $ 426.1 thousand. And in 2019,  Armenia exported over 12 thousand tons of grapes, with a y-o-y   decline of 5.5%. At the same time, the customs value increased in  2019 by 5.8% - to $ 6.4 million.