YEREVAN. – A total of 165,000 tons of vegetables have grown in Armenia since the beginning of the current year, Agriculture Deputy Minister told reporters.

Tomatoes made up 43,000 tons of this amount, Samvel Galstyan said.

In general, the cultivation area of vegetables increased by 2.5 thousand as compared with last year. The growth of crops was achieved through solving the problem of tomato and potato aphid by setting traps under the program the Ministry of Agriculture.