The Government of Tajikistan has instructed to provide about 7 hectares of irrigated land in Khatlon’s Dousti district plots to the Tajik-Sino joint venture, Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) Juntai Khatlon Sin Silu for the construction of a ginnery.
The government’s decree, recently posted on the Justice Ministry’s website for legal information, in particular, says 6.61 hectares of the special fund of Dousti district in Khatlon province are provided to CJSC Juntai Khatlon Sin Silu for the period of twenty years without the right of alienation for the construction of a cotton ginning factory.
CJSC Juntai Khatlon Sin Silu, for its part, undertakes to compensate for losses associated with the withdrawal of lands from the agricultural circulation and transfer about 1.8 million somonis (about 165,000 US dollars) to a special account of the republican budget.
According to the Tajik president’s official website, CJSC Juntai Khatlon Sin Silu has operated in Khatlon’s Dousti district since 2015. The company is engaged in cotton growing.
Some sources noted in 2020 that two Tajik-Sino joint ventures, namely Juntai Khatlon Sin Silu and Vodii Zarrin (Golden Valley), have operated in the Tajik southern province of Khatlon, yielding cotton on an area of more than 10,000 hectares.
Chinese farmers reportedly used modern technologies for growing agricultural plants, applying drip irrigation.
Recall, the agricultural ministries of Tajikistan and China signed an agreement in July 2010, under which farmers from China’s Xinjiang-Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) were supposed to use modern technology of plastic film mulching cultivation of cotton on 60 hectares of cotton fields in Kushoniyon district of the Khatlon province. Besides, 1,000 hectares of farmland in Khatlon’s Jayhun district were allocated to plastic film mulching cultivation of rice.
In 2012, Tajik authorities reportedly allowed Chinese farmers to rent hundreds of hectares of land in Khatlon’s Balkhi and Yovon districts.
