KULOB, February 29, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- The “Moskva” fruit tree nursery in Khatlon’s Hamadoni district has signed an agreement with a group of Turkmen farmers on supplying fruit tree seedlings to Turkmenistan.

The fruit tree nursery director Bobo Mirzoyev says the Turkmen farmers are interested in almond nut tree seedlings and seedlings of three types of apricot trees.

According to him, they are currently seeking ways of getting into markets of Afghanistan, Iran and the Russian Federation.

Established in the 1950s, the “Moskva” fruit tree nursery now has more than 500,000 seedlings of more than 30 types of fruit trees planted on 117 hectares.  The nursery also has a plantation of 27 hectares for different experiments, Mirzoyev said.

Meanwhile, the regional fruit tree seedlings fair took place in the city of Kulob on February 29.  Fifteen fruit tree nurseries as well as forestry and landscape gardening enterprises from all the ten districts of Khatlon’s Kulob region took part at the fair.  They offered 26,800 fruit and decorative tree seedlings.