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BISHKEK (TCA) — On August 15, Kyrgyzstan President Sooronbai Jeenbekov toured the new edible oil and garlic processing facility in Uzgen as part of his visit to Osh and Jalal-Abad oblasts in the south of the country. The new facility, a joint investment of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and ElDan Atalyk, will employ 73 full-time workers and purchase large quantities of local crops. ElDan Atalyk already has plans this year to buy 4,200 tons of safflower, soybean and rapeseed from thousands of local farmers, the US Embassy in Bishkek reported. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — UNICEF Deputy Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, Philippe Cori, on July 20 officially launched the Regional Nutrition Partnership Platform for Central Asia and Caucasus. Mr. Cori is visiting Turkmenistan on 20-22 July. Continue reading
ALMATY (TCA) — To support the development of a modern cold chain in Kazakhstan, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Competitiveness, Trade, and Jobs Activity in Central Asia co-organized an inaugural networking event last week in cooperation with the KAZLOGISTICS Union of Transport Workers of Kazakhstan and the DAMU Logistics Group of companies. Continue reading
ALMATY (TCA) — In the past 50 years, the population of the Central Asia region has tripled. With the need to feed a larger number of people amid increasingly limited water resources and highly vulnerable climatic conditions, the region faces serious food security challenges, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said. A newly launched regional project from FAO and the Global Environment Facility aims to tackle these challenges in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Russian Social and Industrial Foodservice Institute have opened a greenhouse at secondary school No. 15 in the Proletar village of the Vakhsh district in Tajikistan. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of Kyrgyzstan on May 3 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to scale up their collaboration over the next five years and re-affirm their commitment to achieving food security for all in the country. Continue reading
