FreshPlaza: Fruit and vegetables keeping setting new price records in Ukraine

HILLSBOROUGH — Ask Nancy Rabinowitz what she and her husband, Paul, are planting in their garden, and she?ll pull out a neatly printed plan, complete with illustrations.

Tomatoes, melons and zucchini are among their choices. The plot itself is one of about 200 at the new Duke Farms Community Garden, which opened earlier this spring to gardeners who registered and won a parcel through a lottery.

?We had a very large garden at our house, but what?s happened over the last 10 years is the trees have grown up to a point where they block the sun,? said Paul Rabinowitz. ?It became very frustrating. We got sun until mid-May, but when the leaves were all there, forget it.?

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High price for hothouse vegetables in Armenia explained by increased cost of gas, fertilizers

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Deputy Minister of Agriculture commented on high price for hothouse vegetables at news conference in Yerevan.

Samvel Galstyan explained the high price by the increased cost of gas and fertilizers.

To protect the local manufacturer, the Deputy Minister urged the authorities to harden tax and customs administration for importers, specifically from Turkey, where the cost of hothouse production is much lower.

Agrarian University Professor, Andreas Melikyan, in turn, suggested introducing changes to production technologies, allowing to lower self –cost of production and increase crop capacity.

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