KHUJAND, July 3, Asia-Plus  -- Farmer in northern Tajikistan has grown a giant cucumber -- 1.06 meters in length.  It is to be noted that he has grown it not in greenhouse but in his garden.  

Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus, the head of the farming unit Sirdaryo in the Bobojonghafruov district, Dadakhon Umarov, said that local rice-grower Sharifboy Nourmatov had grown the giant cucumber. 

“The cucumber proved to be resistant to diseases and climate changes and it has grown t0 1.06 meters to this date and weighs 3.2 kilograms,” Umarov said. 

Meanwhile, many watermelons, melons and gourds have been seriously affected by the unusually early onset of hot weather and local cucumber species have disappeared, the farming unit head said.  

“We have already jarred several such cucumbers that do not differ from local cucumber species in taste,” Umarov said.  

Specialists should now express their opinion of this phenomenon.