According to a report by the Turkmenistan Information Agency on August 15, Turkmenistan plans to start the cotton picking season on the 29th of this month. Turkmenistan has a total of 545,000 hectares of cotton fields, and has now prepared 500 cotton picking machines, transport vehicles and other supporting machinery. In the early stage of cotton picking, manual methods are used to ensure quality; by early September, Combine cotton will be picked. There are 159 purchasing points and 36 cotton gins in the country. Cotton farmers will purchase the excess amount at a price of 130%. This is the third year that this policy has been implemented. This year’s cotton output is planned to be 1.05 million tons.
The textile industry of Turkmenistan is one of the important economic sectors of Turkmenistan, and its product sales revenue is second only to the Turkish oil and natural gas sector.
