Related Keywords: cotton collection points, cotton harvest, modern enterprises, raw cotton, total cotton area
Cotton is the major source of Turkmenistan's export and raw material for dozens of modern enterprises of the dynamically developing textile industry of Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan allocated total area of 545,000 hectares for cotton production.
Ahal province is the leader among the country’s provinces, where almost 71 percent of the planned volume has been harvested.
Turkmenistan has harvested more than 64 percent, or over 676,000 metric tons of cotton to date, Turkmenpagta (Turkmen cotton) state concern said.
