ARTASHAT CANNERY DOES NOT HAVE TIME TO PURCHASE APRICOTS

YEREVAN, JUNE 28. ARMINFO. Residents of Ararat region of Armenia
have to stand in line for several hours for selling apricots to the
Artashat cannery. And several people complain that the factory simply
does not purchase apricots. To elucidate the situation Minister of
Territorial Management of Armenia Hovik Abrahamian and Chairman of
State Committee of Cadastre of Real Estate of Armenia Manuk Vardanian
visited the Artashat cannery.

In his turn, Director of the factory Sergo Karapetian stated that
the factory purchases apricots in three shifts and does not have
time to process them. During the last three years the purchases of
the factory reached 150 tons, 100 tons of which were purchased only
in June 27. According to Karapetian, the factory is able to purchase
maximum 100 tons of apricots per day. “But in total the factory is
able to purchase unlimited volume of fruits”, Karapetian said.

Abrahamian said that the management of the factory is obliged to
pay 50% out of the amount of the purchase, and the remaining 50 –
within 10 days.

To note, on the results of 2004 the volume of production of Artashat
cannery ojsc increased by 30%, reaching 12,000 tons of finished
product. The volume of selling of the product of the enterprise totaled
$5 mln, the exports reaches 95-96%. Mainly the products are exported
to European countries, the USA, Japan, Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine.