Author calls on private entrepreneurs to help rural communities
12.06.2012,
17:30
An Armenian author, Bakur Karapetian, called today on private entrepreneurs to show support to residents of rural communities in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh located along the border with Azerbaijan.
YEREVAN, June 12. /ARKA/. An Armenian author, Bakur Karapetian, called today on private entrepreneurs to show support to residents of rural communities in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh located along the border with Azerbaijan.
He said the government assistance is not sufficient to boost agricultural production in the villages.
“Lack of investment is gradually emptying these villages. In many villages there are only old people living out their days on money sent by their children from abroad,"- he said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Karapetian argued that charitable funds allocated by various local and foreign organizations to border villages are temporary measures and can not stop the ongoing exodus.
"Private entrepreneurs may help set up milk collection points, workshops for processing of meat, fruits and vegetables. We just need to find investors, «he said.
The director of the Institute of Philosophy, Sociology and Law, Gevorg Poghosyan, also present at the news conference, said without rural population urban population would die out. Pogosyan said that the initiative group of the movement "Let's save our village" in partnership with the Ministry of Territorial Administration, Agriculture and the Diaspora intends to develop a program to boost development of border villages in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh. -0-
