DUSHANBE, September 23, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- President Emomali Rahmon yesterday visited Qubodiyon and Rumi districts in the southern Khatlon province.

In Qubodiyon, the head of state attended a ceremony of an official opening of a Tajik-Japanese joint venture for producing medicinal preparations.

A total cost of the project is 3 million U.S. dollars and the enterprise will create 50 new jobs for local residents.  Besides, 150 other people will be provided with seasonal work.

In Qubodiyon, Rahmon also visited the rice growing farm, Davlatbek, and highly appraised work of rice growers, the presidential press service reports.

After that, the president got acquitted with the process of rehabilitation of an 87-kilometer road from Qurghon Teppa, the administrative center of Khatlon province to Nizhny Panj on the Tajik-Afghan border.  A 27-kilometer section of this road from Dusti to Nizhny Panj has already been introduced into operation.

The road is being rehabilitated under financial support of the Government of Japan that ahs provided 75 million U.S. dollars for this project.  The highway from Qurghon Teppa to Nizhny Panj is expected to be introduced into operation at the end of the next year, the source said.

At the end of his working trip to Rumi district, the president visited the seed-growing farm named after Safar Jumayev.