ASHGABAT (TCA) — Today, March 31, Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, on an official visit to Turkmenistan, inaugurated the ore-dressing and processing complex for the production of potash fertilizers in Garlyk in Turkmenistan’s Lebap province, official Turkmen media reported.
The Garlyk mining and processing factory has been built by a company from Belarus.
The presidents made a tour around the new plant, its mine pits, ore storage, potassium processing workshop, and export warehouse.
The new industrial complex includes more than 100 facilities, provided with the latest equipment and technologies from manufacturers from Germany, Switzerland, Great Britain, Denmark, the USA, Russia, and Belarus.
This processing plant has no analogy in Central Asia. It will produce 1.4 million tons of potash fertilizer per year.
Huge reserves of potassium salt deposits at Garlyk exceeding 2 billion tons will provide stable work of the complex for many decades.
The new enterprise will allow not only to meet the needs of the Turkmen agricultural sector for ecologically clean potassium fertilizers but also to export more than a million tons of fertilizer per year.
During his talks with President Berdymukhammedov on March 30, Lukashenko said that Belarus is ready to provide logistics centers to Turkmenistan to organize the delivery of products to Europe, BelTA information agency reported.
“You can sell your products from the territory of Belarus on the European premium market. We will provide logistics centers, warehouses, equipment. This segment is vigorously developing in Belarus. Think what to sell in Europe to get maximum benefits, we will determine ways,” Lukashenko said.
The president of Belarus also said that China has already used this opportunity, adding that many countries see a kind of a springboard in Turkmenistan which can be used for trade with Iran, Pakistan, India, and Arab countries.
