KURGHAN-TUBE, August 12, 2001, Asia-Plus - A number of districts in the southern Khatlon province have started cotton-harvesting campaign -2010.

As the administration of Khatlon province has informed, in a southern part of the region - Kubodiyon, Shaartuz, Bokhtar, Vakhshs, Jilikul districts harvesting has informally begun. The official season of cotton-harvesting starts in August 15, then in all cotton districts of the region cotton-harvesting campaign of "white gold» will begin.

The source also has noticed that this year cotton growers of Khatlon region have grown up raw cotton on the area of 100 thousand, 598 hectares.