Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, March 19 / Trend H.Hasanov /
Turkmenistan will start cotton planting on March 23, the Turkmen Agriculture Ministry reported. The field work will be launched simultaneously in all regions of the country.
There was an increase in production of certain types of crop products - wheat was collected by 115.3 percent more than in 2009, raw cotton - by 133.1 percent in 2010. The country's farmers collected about 1.5 million tons of wheat and 1.3 million tons of raw cotton. Area under wheat was 860,000 hectares, while under cotton - 550,000 hectares.
Turkmenistan gas became one of the leading cotton exporters. Since 2011, Turkmenistan introduces a new procedure for the implementation of cotton grown by producers in excess of contractual obligations, and cotton products, obtained after the processing of crude.
Turkmen President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammedov said at the recent governmental meeting that all works carried out these days in the country's fields "must be carried out timely and based on achievements of modern science."