Shift from cotton to fruit crops…in Tajikistan

Posted on July 30, 2009 by admin | No Comments

Fergana.ru reports on Tajikistan’s gradual decrease in acreage planted under cotton in favor of orchards:
According to the chief agronomist of the Sogd provincial department of agriculture, Abduvohid Yarmatov, this year 16 thousand hectares of cotton were eliminated: 71 thousand hectares were planted under cotton before, and only 55 thousand are currently. The main reason for [...]