Agroindustrial Sector: New Milestones of Growth
With the aim of at improving the people’s welfare and quality of life through achieving food abundance and the diversity of competitive high-quality food products in the consumer market, large-scale reforms are being implemented under the wise and farsighted leadership of the President of Turkmenistan. The ongoing agricultural reforms ensure the resistance of the national economy to external risks, allow minimising the effects of unfavourable external factors, enable to maintain high rates of GDP growth, increase agricultural output and raise investments in this sector. In accordance with the National Rural Programme, investments amounted to 1.3 billion manats have been used in the country over the past six months; large-scale measures are being implemented to optimise the activities in the agroindustrial complex and effective steps are being taken to modernise and intensify the agricultural sector, to boost soil fertility, to purchase innovative equipment from the world’s biggest manufacturers and to provide the sector with mineral fertilisers. Much attention is also paid to building agro-processing enterprises, adopting new technologies, introducing science advances to increase crop yields, promoting selective breeding, training specialists and improving the working and living conditions of farmers.
