PROBLEMS ON THE AGENDA
Azat Artsakh – Nagorno Karabakh Republic (NKR)
06 Oct 04
The questions discussed at the meeting of the regional council of
Hadrout mainly referred to the preparation works for winter
tillage. The chairman of the meeting was the head of the regional
administration V. Gevorgian. In 2003 the harvest was good in the
region, allowing to increase the area under crop next year from 4902
to 8495 hectares. However, the estimates of the farmers for 2004 did
not come true because of unfavourable weather and pests. The average
yield per hectare totaled 1.4 tons, the overall yield was 11 262 tons
decreasing by 2000 tons against the previous year. These rates were
presented by the head of the department of agriculture of the regional
administration L. Abrahamian, who added that this year they expect to
do 7000-8000 hectares of winter tillage. By September 30 only 5600
hectares has been tilled which means that less area will be used for
arable crops this year. During the meeting the department of
agriculture, the heads of the communities were charged with taking
corresponding measures for completing the tillage, holding a
laboratory test of the seeds, providing the use of chemicals. The
members of the regional council made the decision of addressing the
NKR government with the request of providing aid to the farmers whose
fields were damaged by natural disasters. At the same time it was
mentioned that it would be convenient to provide the aid in the form
of loans. Also the question was raised to implement the sales of
chemicals through a specialized company and forbid the activities of
individuals in this sphere. One of the questions discussed was the
activities and the future plans of the official newspaper `Dizak’ on
which the editor-in-chief Y. Madounts made a report. Evaluating the
work of the newspaper staff as satisfactory, the heads of the
departments of the regional administration and the communities were
tasked to deal with subscription to the newspaper, and the attention
of the staff was drawn to the improvement of the quality and urgency
of the materials, as well as cooperation with freelance
reporters. Then the head of the territorial agency of social service
S. Hakobian reported on the activitiesof the agency directed by
him. The activities of the mentioned organization are various: family
allowances, aid to the families of the disabled of the war and the
killed soldiers, providing sums for the tombstones of the killed
azatamartiks, opening of bank accounts for each third and more child
in thefamily, social cards, unemployment benefits. In the past 9
months the amount of family allowances totaled 31 million 316 AM
drams. 1 million 469 thousand drams of insurance benefit was paid to
the disabled of the Artsakh war. According tothe NKR government
decision N 146, the construction of houses for 4 of the 6 families of
the region having 6 and more children under 18 has already begun.
E. DAVTIAN.
06-10-2004
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress