And this summer, Azerbaijani farmers did not avoid difficulties in exporting grown fruits and vegetables to foreign markets. And sometimes they fail to send the harvest even to their own, capital bazaars and have to sell it for a penny in their area.
Farmers from Jalilabad and Goychay districts complain that they really want to send their goods to Russia, where right now, at the beginning of the season, there is a great demand for young potatoes, cucumbers and tomatoes of the new crop, but due to obstacles invented by officials, transportation is very expensive ...
As the employees of haqqin.az found out, farmers were forbidden to send their products by rail, only by trucks. And such transportation costs disproportionately to the future proceeds.
As for local markets, for example, in Goychay, the price for cucumbers fluctuates between 3-5 qepiks, and tomatoes can be sold for no more than 20 qepiks.
“As a result, it turns out that we have to sell vegetables at a price much lower than the cost of the grown produce, since we have to spend a lot on fertilizers, electricity, and water. So we are waiting for when it will be possible to send the harvest to Russia or at least to Baku, and the vegetables, meanwhile, deteriorate, ”the residents of the Lyakchylpag village of the Goychay region are outraged. Indeed, if in late April-early May farmers could sell a kilogram of tomatoes, which cost them 70-80 qepiks per kilogram, 20-30 qepiks for one manat or even manat, now they sell vegetables for only 20 qapiks. Considering that during the season they spend up to 30 thousand on caring for these tomatoes, this is a complete ruin for them. There are farmers who spent 30 thousand, and now their products and money are lost. "
Farmers from Jalilabad region do not know what to do with their potatoes. “Potato prices have dropped significantly. We spent 5 thousand manats per hectare, and we sell at 35-40 qepiks per kilogram. Our expenses do not pay off at all. They hoped to send the harvest to Russia, where it would be possible to gain more, but now it is impossible by rail, and it costs $ 3 by road. Where do we get that kind of money? Previously, five cars with a load were sent per day, but now there are only one or two cars, and even those get stuck in long queues, ”they are indignant.