KULOB, June 6, Asia-Plus  -- Farmers in Khatlon’s Kulob region have yielded the first 2,599 tons of wheat from an area of totaling 1,359 hectares by June 6, Abdullo Rajabov, a leading specialist with the Kulob agriculture directorate, said in an interview with Asia-Plus. 

According to him, five districts of the Kulob region, including Kulob, Farkhor, Hamadoni and Danghara, have started harvesting cereals.  They have used totaling 25 combiner harvesters.

“In the Temourmalik district, farmers yesterday gathered grains from 20 hectares by hand,” the leading specialist said, adding that machine harvesting will start in the district within the next few days. 

Rajabov noted that farming units in the Farkhor district had reported harvests of up to 2.7 tons/ha and in Hamadoni – 2.5 tons/ha.  

In all, farmers in the Kulob region planted cereals on the area of 88,387 hectares and plan to harvest 150,742 tons of cereals, including 141,063 tons of wheat.