YEREVAN, March 15. /ARKA/. As a result of the war that Azerbaijan unleashed against Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh), the Artsakh farmers have lost about 3 thousand hectares of orchards, which are now controlled by Azerbaijan, the chairman of the Agrarian Union of Armenia Hrachya Berberyan said during a press conference on Monday.
According to him, in terms of today’s market wholesale prices, the loss amounts to over 100 million drams annually.
Overall, the Armenian farmers in Artsakh have lost also 100 thousand tons of wheat, 1.3 thousand hectares of pomegranate orchards, 300 hectares of persimmon gardens, about 250 hectares of land under onion, a significant area of vineyards, which are now controlled by Azerbaijan.
On September 27, 2020, Azerbaijani armed forces, backed by Turkey and foreign mercenaries and terrorists, attacked Nagorno-Karabakh along the entire front line using rocket and artillery weapons, heavy armored vehicles, military aircraft and prohibited types of weapons such as cluster bombs and phosphorus weapons.
After 44 days of the war, on November 9, the leaders of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia signed a statement on the cessation of all hostilities. According to the document, the parties stopped at where they were at that time. The town of Shushi, the districts of Agdam, Kelbajar and Lachin were handed over to Azerbaijan, with the exception of a 5-kilometer corridor connecting Karabakh with Armenia.
A Russian peacekeeping contingent was deployed along the contact line in Karabakh and along the Lachin corridor. Internally displaced persons and refugees are returning to Karabakh and adjacent regions, prisoners of war, hostages and other detained persons and bodies of the dead are being exchanged.–0-