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DUSHANBE (TCA) — The United States government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced a new health and nutrition program that will operate in Tajikistan’s western Khatlon Province. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — This year Uzbekistan will start production of potato chips. The project will be implemented at East West Invest enterprise in Tashkent, Novosti Uzbekistana reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A new book by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) calls for a transition across Central Asia to conservation agriculture, a key recommendation of the Organization's "Save and Grow" model of sustainable crop production. It suggests that governments learn from the example of Kazakhstan, where conservation agriculture practices - zero-tillage, retention of crop residues and crop rotations - have helped wheat farmers achieve high yields even during severe droughts, the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia said. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan and China will implement 19 joint agricultural projects worth US $1.735 billion, Kazakhstan’s Deputy Agriculture Minister Gulmira Isayeva said on January 25, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The Ministry for Investment and Development and Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan have conducted a series of meetings with executives from major food companies of Italy, who expressed their intention to establish joint enterprises in Kazakhstan for cultivation and processing of fruit and vegetables, production of dairy products and organic manure, the press service of the Ministry for Investment and Development said on January 25. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Entrepreneurs from Uzbekistan are interested in growing fruit orchards in southern Kazakhstan, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported citing Nurzhan Altayev, deputy chairman of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan. Continue reading
