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from 1990 to 2006. Large Soviet-era collective farms were dismantled and replaced by small private farm holdings. NBCA quoted farmers as saying that the state continues to decide where grain is to be sown, set production quotas for farmers and buy up crops at prices too low to create any incentive. The state provides farmers with seed and fertilizer. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS), the state authorities regulate prices for basic foods and provide food subsidies. “For food security purposes, the government practices the distribution of a certain volume of wheat ﬂour to all population,” GIEWS says on its website. “The quality of local ﬂour and ﬂour products is still poor and therefore a large volume of foodstuff is imported for food consumption. Due to high unemployment and malnutrition in particular in rural areas, food security is at risk, especially for vulnerable groups.” Turkmenistan’s high dependence on irrigation, particularly for cotton production, has been cited as one of the causes of the drying up of the Aral Sea.
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Turkmenistan’s government has started an ambitious project to green the desert with the construction of a vast lake. According to Turkmenistan.ru, at the inauguration construction, the president said, that “upon the completion of the second and third phases of the Turkmen lake, Turkmenistan will have a single drainage system. “New green oasis, towns, villages, districts will emerge in the vast open space of the Karakum desert,” he said. “The development of irrigated agriculture, livestock and ﬁsheries sector will get an additional impetus.” According to the website, the construction of an extensive collection network in the middle of the Karakum desert started in 2000. It will collect drainage water from almost all over the country and store it in a giant natural depression called Karashor, it said. Every year, up to 10 billion cubic meters of mineralized drainage water will be collected in Karashor. “This will dramatically improve ameliorative condition of irrigated lands and make it possible to solve many problems related to salinity, waterlogging of land and drought,” it said. “The total capacity of the reservoir will be 132 billion cubic meters and the water surface area will total 2,000 square kilometers.”
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Turkmengallaonumleri has contracted with Germany’s Unionmatex to supply ﬁve new turn-key mills around the country. New mills at Ruhabat and Turkmenabat will each have a milling capacity of 360 tonnes a day and a wheat storage capacity of 100,000 tonnes. The planned new mills at Serdar,
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