DUSHANBE, April 21, 2010, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan’s first chicken meat production factory is expected to open in the Muminobod district, Khatlon province in May this year, Deputy Agriculture Minister, Isroil Sijouddinov, remarked at a news conference in Dushanbe yesterday.
According to him, this Tajik-Iranian joint venture was supposed to be launched at the beginning of the year but it was postponed because of the delays in rail cargo bound for Tajikistan in Uzbekistan.
In the meantime, Muzaffar Mirzoyev, the head of the poultry department within the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), told Asia-Plus yesterday afternoon that under an agreement reached between Tajikistan and Iran, the Tajik side allocates a building for the factory and the Iranian side provides modern equipment.
“Freight cars containing the equipment were stranded on Uzbek territory for more than a month and they arrived in Tajikistan just recently,” said Mirzoyev, “The factory with capacity of production of 300-400 tons of chicken meat per year is expected to be introduced into operation in May.”
According to a MoA, 19 poultry farms with a total of 1.2 million chickens now function in Tajikistan. Over the first three months of this year, these enterprises have produced 28.3 million eggs.
