KHUAJND, August 19, 2008, Asia-Plus — Over the first seven months of this year in investments in the fixed capital of the Sughd province from all sources of financing have amounted to more than 252 million somonis (TJS), which is more than 100 million somonis more than in the same period of last year (in prices actually in effect), according to the Sughd agency for statistics.
Investments in fixed capital have come from the following funds: foreign investments – more than 180 million somonis or 71.3 percent; state – for a total of more than 45 million somonis or 18.1 percent of the overall volume of capital investments in the province; the population – 14 million somonis or 5.6 percent; joint ventures – more than 8 million somonis or 3.2 percent; private entrepreneurs – 3.2 million somonis or 1.3 percent; joint-stock companies – more than 1 million somonis or 0.4 percent; and collective and dehqon (peasant) farms – 98,800 somonis or 0.03 percent.
Most of investments were assimilated by the following enterprises and organizations: the unit for implementation of the Dushanbe-Khujand-Chanak (Uzbek border town) highway – 156.5 million somonis or 62.1 percent; agriculture center – 2 million somonis or 8.3 percent, the ministry of transport and communications – more than 10 million somonis or 4.1 percent, and the ministry of energy and industries – more than 9 million somonis or 3.7 percent.
