“It's the same if we get red tomato juice from green tomato

“The storage of grape will be done on time, not a single kilogram of grape will be left unsorted”, - told Gerasim Alaverdyan, the Minister of Agriculture of Armenia to the journalists and touched upon the statements which said that people have thrown the harvest of the grape and that the organizations do not storage them any more.

“My dear people that’s not true, it is a disinformation”, - assured G. Alaverdyan.

The Minister explained that the storing organization according to the signed agreement can store a bit more grape than it had previewed, which is possible according the same agreement, it is possible but not with big amounts.

“If the agreement is for 10 tones and the countryman will take 10.200 kilos there will be no problem”, - the Minister assured.
The speaker also touched upon the prices of purchases and mentioned that it is the market that puts the prices according to the supply and demand.

“The price of today’s grape will correspond to the prices of the last year, last year it was 140 drams and 120 and 80 drams too”, - informed G. Alaverdyan.

The price of the grape, according to the Minister, depends on the type of the grape as the different technological processes take place in the grapes. That means if the sugar in the grape is less than 17% that grape is not useful for the purchase.

“It is the same if we try to get a red tomato juice from green tomato”, - the Minister said.

G. Alaverdyan touched upon several technological processes that take place during the cultivation of the grape, processes such as not watering the grape one month before gathering it.

“But people water them few days before gathering and add water in their composition and the corresponding laboratory answers that the amount of the sugar is low in the grape”, - mentioned the Minister of Agriculture.