DUSHANBE, October 24, Asia-Plus  -- Tajikistan has yielded 367,260 tons of cotton by October 24, which is 66.8 percent of the national target, which has been determined at 550,000 of cotton, Asia-plus has learned from Alisher Gadoyev, leading specialist with the industrial crops and grains department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection (MoAEP).   

According to him, Tajik farmers on October 23 yielded 3,505 tons of cotton, which is 0.6 percent of the national target.

The southern Khatlon province has pledged to produce 330,500 tons of raw cotton this year.  They have gathered 224,960 tons of cotton by October 24, which is 68.1percent of the target.

Districts subordinate to the center (RRPs) have yielded some 31,867 tons of raw cotton, which is 66.2 percent of the target.  Their target is 48,200 tons of cotton. 

Cotton growers of the northern Sughd province have yielded 110,413 tons of cotton by October 24, which comprises more than 64.5 percent of its target determined at 171,300 tons of cotton. 

Tajikistan last year yielded 440,000 tons of cotton, which was some 80 percent of the national target that had been determined at 547,000 tons of cotton.