YEREVAN. – Online systems providing services have joined efforts to promote local producers, chairman of Cooperation Association of Small and Medium Business NGO Hakob Avakyan said.

It is usually difficult for small producers to conclude contracts with supermarkets, and the local only systems are ready to help.

Armenia’s menu.am, buy.am и crossroad.com united to open a “produced in Armenia” section on their websites to provide a platform for the local producers in exchange for a reduced fee.

According to project director of menu.am Vahan Kerobyan, the most important thing is to make the Armenian consumers to pay attention to local products. Here, the online platform are not competitors, but allies.

“In addition, some part of our orders comes from abroad. So, the Armenian goods will not be familiar to the local consumers only, but to some, even though a small part, of foreign consumers,” Kerobyan added.