Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 7
By Anvar Mammadov - Trend:
In the coming years, Azerbaijan’s CTS-AGRO LLC plans to increase cotton production in the country to 100,000 tons per year, Zakir Azimov, acting director of the company, said at a meeting of Azerbaijan Industrial Corporation on Feb. 7.
In order to increase cotton production in Azerbaijan, first of all, it is necessary to increase the yield, he said.
“We aim to increase the yield to 25 centners per hectare in the next five years from the current 18 centners,” Azimov said.
Azimov noted that last year, the company sowed cotton in 14 districts of Azerbaijan.
“A total of 28,600 hectares of land were sown in 2017, and in the result, we received 51,200 tons of raw cotton, which is 1.8 times more than in 2016,” Azimov said. “This year we sowed 35,000 hectares of land and plan to receive 70,000 tons of cotton.”
He added that in order to achieve this result, it is necessary to carefully study the mistakes and shortcomings made last year.
“We need to take a more careful approach to the selection of lands for sowing cotton, properly and efficiently use agricultural machinery and pay special attention to the means used to combat pests,” Azimov said.
