KULOB, February 17, 2010, Asia-Plus — Another six cotton producing farms in the Farkhor district, Khatlon’s Kulob zone have fully repaid government credit taken through Amonatbonk (Tajikistan’s savings bank) in 2009, Rajabali Kulabekov, an agronomy expert with the main branch of Amonatbonk in Kulob, said in an interview with Asia-Plus.
“To-date, 26 cotton producing farms in Farkhor have paid off loans taken last year for cotton-harvesting campaign,” Kulabekov said.
According to him, 13 farming units in Vose district, three farming units in Kulob district and two farming units in Hamadoni district have also fully repaid last year’s cotton loans and applied to the bank for new loans.
In 2009, the government gave a 7,033,510 somoni credit to the mentioned four cotton districts in the Kulob zone and more than 50 percent (3,527,300 somoni) of that has been repaid to this day, the agronomy expert added.
