Turkmenistan plans to harvest 1 million 250 thousand tons of raw cotton

Cotton harvesting in Turkmenistan in 2023 will be fully mechanized. This year, farmers of the country have sown more than 580,000 hectares of land with cotton and plan to harvest 1 million 250,000 tons of raw cotton. Turkmen scientist told about it in an article for Centralasia.news newspaper Khudaiberdyev Negmatulla.

The material of the candidate of sciences tells about the step-by-step mechanization and automation of agriculture of the country, which gives the opportunity to increase the productivity of farmers and reduce labor costs.

The scientist stressed that modernization of the sphere of agricultural production of cotton includes improvement and renewal of technical resources, purchase of new special equipment and raising the level of qualification of workers. There is also modernization of the cotton processing industry.  

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