DUSHANBE, June 2, Asia-Plus — On Sunday June 1, President Emomali Rahmon visited the Shahritus district in the southern Khatlon province.
According to presidential press service, the aim of the visit was to get acquainted with socioeconomic situation in the district.
During his sty in the district, the president visited the farming unit Baodur, which deals with growing vegetables and groundnuts.
The farming unit managers noted that they plan to harvest 6 tons of groundnut and 40 tons of vegetables from one hectare this year.
In Shahritus, Rahmon also visited the apricot plantation in the farming unit Najbullo and familiarized himself with work of vegetable and grain growers in the farming unit Isfara.
Attending a ceremony of an official opening of a new Uzbek-language school, which is able to accommodate 600 pupils, the head of state hailed a good level of knowledge of some school students of foreign languages.
During the ceremony, it was noted that the school had been built due to funds of local entrepreneurs and pupils’ parents. The school is provide with all necessary equipment and has computer class.
In the farming unit Isfara, Rahmon held a meeting with heads of Khatlon’s cities and districts, stock-breeding and seed-growing farms, cotton-ginning factories, as well as heads of relevant republican organizations and institutions.
Speaking at the meeting, the Shahritus chairman Kholmurod Rahmonov noted that 128 facilities are currently being renovated in the district. According to him, six schools will be introduced into operation this year.
“Over the first four months of this year, 5,693,338 somonis have been spent for construction and rehabilitation of education, health and cultural facilities,” said the district head. “Of this amount, only 183,854 somonis have been allocated from the budget, while the remainder has been provided by local entrepreneurs and population.”
The Khatlon governor Ghaybullo Avzal noted that the province this year has planted grains on 21,000 hectares more than last yea. According to him, Khatlon farmers intend to have second harvests of various agricultural crops from 60,000 hectares of irrigated lands.
Speaking at the meeting, Rahmon expressed concern that 5,300 hectares of lands remain unused in the province.
He also set tasks to design creation of new settlements on waste lands to which people from submerged area of the Roghun reservoir and some disaster-prone areas could be relocated, presidential press service said.
Speaking at the meeting, the president called on Khatlon’s district to attain to the level of the Shahritus district.
