DUSHANBE, August 28, 2010, Asia-Plus — Tajik leader has again urged parents of students attending religious schools abroad to bring their children home back.
President Emomali Rahmon reiterated the call during a meeting with residents of Rasht district on August 27.
I repeat again, bring your children attending foreign religious schools home back because the majority of them are becoming extremists and terrorists, Rahmon said. The president noted that Tajik State Islamic Institute had been founded in Tajikistan and young people who want to study Islam might attend that institute.
Speaking at the meeting, President Rahmon also told people to create stocks of food for two years.
Friday afternoon, the head of state visited Tojikobod and Jirgatol districts to get acquainted with socioeconomic situation there, according to presidential press service.
In Tojikobod, Rahmon visited potato growing farms named after Anvar Qalandarov and Langari Shoh. The farming units have planted potatoes on 25 hectares and plan to have average potato yields of 35 tons per hectare.
The beekeeping farm named after named after Sayvali Yusupov in Tojikobod has more than 100 bee-families and in good years, each of the bee-families gives up to 30 kilograms of honey per year. This year, they plan to have up to 25 kilograms of honey from each of the bee families.
In Jirgatol district, the president visited a number of potato growing farms, including the seed-growing farms Qizilsou and Algha.
3,300 hectares of farmland in Jirgatol have been sown with potatoes this year, and local farmers plan to produce more than 60,000 tons of potatoes.
