KONIBODOM, April 14, Asia-Plus  - Some 2,000 hectares of cotton, 350 hectares of grains and some 70 hectares of orchards can perish in Konibodom because of shortage of water, the Konibodom agriculture department head Karimkhoja Jourayev said in an interview with Asia-Plus. 

According to him, water shortages have resulted from a decline in the level of water in Big Ferghana Canal (BFC), which provides more than 70 percent of local population with irrigation and drinking water.  

At present, the water inflow rate in the BFC is not more than 4 cubic meters per second, while under a government-to-government agreement between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan it should be not less than 10 cubic meters per second.