The country's grain growers are ready to start seeding

The winter sowing in the Akhal, Balkan, Lebap and Mary regions starts on August 29. Agrarians of the Dashoguz region will join the campaign on September 5. In accordance with the Decree of the Head of State, the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources is ordered to conduct agrarian meeting based on concluded contracts with daikhan associations and farms, agricultural enterprises and individual tenants. It is planned to receive 1 million 600 thousand tons of food grain from 760 thousand hectares of land in 2019. 

In large grain growing, centers were conducted working seminars on the interaction of the responsible structures of the agrarian department and agricultural producers. Leaders of the Daikhan associations, agronomists, machine operators, meliorates and tenant farmers attended the meetings. 

The preparation of agricultural machinery, its preventive examination and repair was carried out. On the line of readiness - improved models of arable tractors of the brands "CLAAS" and "John Deere". Ready-to-use tractors, including new modifications - Belarus-80X and Belarus-82.1, are universal traction-type vehicles with modernized operating systems that replaced the MTZ brand, as well as seeders, other units and equipment. For the production of food and seed wheat, the state on preferential terms provides seeds and mineral fertilizers, funds for combating agricultural pests. 

The planned contractual obligations of the Ahal grain producers are 450 thousand tons of grain, the Mary's - 380 thousand tons, the Lebap - 350 thousand tons, the Dashoguz - 300 thousand tons and the Balkan - 120 thousand tons. In addition to 760 hectares of land allocated for winter wheat, an area of one hundred thousand hectares is allocated for seed production. The largest number of such farms is located in Mary, Dashoguz and Lebap regions. 

This year's sowing campaign will use high-yielding, well-proven varieties - Sahrai, Dzhuvan, Bitarap, Miras, Yeloten-1, Yeloten-3, etc., developed by the specialists of the Research Institute Agriculture. Cultivation of Russian wheat seeds in Turkmenistan has been continuing since 2007 as part of the implementation of the protocol of the Intergovernmental Coordination Council on Seed Issues of the CIS. During this time, in the soil-climatic conditions, the countries successfully tested and cultivated varieties: "Batko", "Nota", "Vassa", "Irishka", "Krupinka" and "Jubilee-100". 

Currently, in each region of the country are operating modern grain-processing enterprises, equipped with equipment from the best European manufacturers. In 2014, eight new elevators were put into operation, calculated in total for a one-time storage of 360 thousand tons of grain. The total capacity of grain processing enterprises corresponds to the average yield of wheat fields and the needs of the population, amounting to more than one million tons of flour of the first and higher grades enriched with premixes of ferrous sulfate and folic acid per year.