Armenia’s fruit crop will be significantly bigger this year, due to unusually favorable weather conditions, according to the country’s agriculture ministry.
Garnik Petrosian, head of the ministry’s fruit-growing department, told local media that farmers across the country are expected to collect nearly 400,000 tonnes of grapes, apples and other fruit, 54 per cent more than last year.
“We are now expecting a very big harvest,” he said. “We will even have trouble selling fruit.” Petrosian added that apricots, estimated to total 80,000t this year, will be responsible for most of the anticipated gain.
A short but destructive spring cold snap limited the 2004 apricot harvest to a comparatively modest 6,000t. Petrosian said that the government also expects a sizable increase in the yields of key vegetables such as potatoes and tomatoes.
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