Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Jan. 17
By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend:
Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has given an instruction to produce 1.6 million tons of wheat in 2017, the Turkmen government said in a message.
Turkmenistan started to cultivate wheat in the years of its independence and the country has been exporting the surplus of the harvest since 2011.
The planted area covers 760,000 hectares. In 2016, 1.6 million tons of bread-grain was cultivated.
Turkmenistan was awarded with a special prize by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations for achievements in the field of food security.