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Trend News Agency
March 29, 2018
A total of 545,000 hectares of land are allocated for cotton in Turkmenistan. It is planned to harvest a total of 1.050 million tons of cotton, including 207,000 tons in the Akhal province, 300,000 tons in the Lebap province, and 313,000 tons in the Mary province. More than 7,000 tractors of different brands,Ãâà...
Trend News Agency
March 23, 2018
It is planned to harvest a total of 1.050 million tons of cotton, including 207,000 tons in the Akhal province, 230,000 tons in the Dashoguz province, 300,000 tons in the Lebap province, and 313,000 tons in the Mary province. More than 7,000 tractors of different brands, more than 2,100 seeders, more thanÃâà...
Trend News Agency
March 18, 2018
The loan at three percent per year and with a four-year grace period is calculated for 11 years to finance the construction of a potash fertilizer plant in the Tubigatan potash field in the Lebap province. The Central Bank of Turkmenistan was assigned to allocate this loan through the joint-stock commercialÃâà...
AzerNews
February 26, 2018
A solemn opening ceremony of the international airport was held in Turkmenabat city, the administrative center of Turkmenistan's Lebap province. The airport built by Gundogdy local company is located 13 kilometers from the city in close proximity to the Ashgabat-Turkmenabat highway and theÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
February 13, 2018
In neighboring Lebap Province, flour has recently become twice as expensive as it is in the provincial capital, Turkmenabat, local people said. In Turkmenabat, a 50-kilogram sack of flour costs between $23 and $29, while in the Lebap Province towns of Kerkichi and Magdanly, the same amount of theÃâà...
The Diplomat
November 28, 2017
This week, a handful of leaders in Turkmenistan's Lebap Province were dismissed after a visit by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. During the president's visit to the east, according to state media, he held a cabinet meeting during which Mammetkhan Chakyev, director of the State Service forÃâà...
Earth Touch News
October 13, 2017
Leave a bunch of alcohol and stinky cheese next to a pile of bat poop in a cave, and you never know who will show up to investigate! When researchers did precisely this in a little-explored cavern in Turkmenistan, their odorous lures attracted a never-before-recorded species of bug, a two-prongedÃâà...
The Independent
September 21, 2017
A new species of animal – a "mirabilis" troglodyte – has been discovered in a cave in Turkmenistan after scientists used smelly cheese to catch it. The researchers reported the tiny creature represented not just a new species but a whole new genus or family of species. They named it TurkmenocampaÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 3, 2014
The Month of Health and Sports is under way in Turkmenistan, with thousands of people throughout the country taking long walks in parks and participating in compulsory physical fitness classes at their workplaces. The campaign is part of health-care initiatives launched by President GurbangulyÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
October 18, 2013
Officials in Turkmenistan have long been under international scrutiny for recruiting children to harvest cotton, the country's most important crop. In recent years, the country has enforced laws forbidding the use of child labor. But this harvest season, it appears that even young children are back at work in theÃâà...
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