Tajik cotton growers are taking measures to gather cotton on time and fulfill the national cotton target, which has been determined at more than 400,000 tons.
According to the press center of the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), the country’s cotton-growing farms have yielded 188,000 tons of raw cotton by October, which is 23,000 tons more than in the same period last year.
Cotton growers in Khatlon province have reportedly yielded more than 133,000 tons of raw cotton by October 5.
Cotton growing districts in the northern Sughd province have reportedly yielded about 53,000 tons of raw cotton by October 5.
Districts subordinated to the center (RRP) have yielded only 2,000 tons of raw cotton by October 5, the MoA press center says.
According to the MoA Crop Production Directorate, Tajik farmers this year have reportedly planted cotton on 177,048 hectares.
This year, cotton pickers have received 1.00 somonis for one kilogram of raw cotton, 50 diram more than last year (in 2020, cotton pickers received 50 diram for one kilogram of raw cotton.
Meanwhile, the cotton growing farms themselves deliver raw cotton to the buyers at the rate of 8.00-9.00 somonis. Last year, the cotton growing farms delivered raw cotton to the buyers at the rate of 4.00-5.00 somonis.
The experts have calculated that taking into consideration the rise in prices for the services of machinery and fertilizers, current production costs of one kilogram of raw cotton are at least 9.00 somonis.
