YEREVAN. – Serious problems have emerged on the border in terms of apricot exports, economist Tatul Manaseryan stated during a press conference on Wednesday.  

He informed that hundreds of tons of apricots were dumped as a result of being held for too long, and subsequently rotting, at Armenia’s customs checkpoint.    

As per Manaseryan, the Armenian Ministry of Agriculture has not done enough work to explain to exporters as to which accompanying documents are needed.  

To note, the Agriculture Ministry had released a statement, according to which Armenia’s apricot exports had broken a new record in 2013, with approximately 24,000 tons.