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DUSHANBE, July 21, 2010, Asia-Plus — 23 percent of seed potatoes purchased in Russia has spoiled due to Uzbekistan’s halting of Tajikistan-bound freight cars, deputy Agriculture Minister, Sijouddin Iroilov, stated at a news conference in Dushanbe on July 20.
According to him, the seed potato spoilage has cost Tajikistan 500,000 somoni. “This year, the government has allocated 6 million somoni for seed potato purchases and we have bought 2,100 tons of seed potatoes in Russia,” the deputy minister said.
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460 tons of the purchased seed potatoes has spoiled as freight cars loaded with seed potatoes were held up for almost one and half months on Uzbek territory.
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