President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon during his trip to Khatlon region got acquainted with the activity of enterprises and the progress of construction works in the Free Economic Zone "Panj".

SEZ "Panj" was established in the Sari pul area  of the Jaihun district in 2008. Its total area is 401.6 hectares. To date, 18.7 hectares of the total land area have been developed, the presidential press service reports..

In the presence of the president in the SEZ "Panj", stones were laid in the construction of three new enterprises - CJSC "Burok", LLC "Tanus" and LLC "Global".

JSC "Burok" will be built on an area of 0.5 hectares, the direction of its activities will be commerce and production of vegetable oil. The volume of investment in this enterprise will be $ 2 million. The production capacity of this enterprise will be 2 thousand liters of sunflower oil per year, finished products will be mainly exported and put up for sale on the domestic market. According to the plan, the produced oil will be transported to the Islamic republics of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Raw materials for this enterprise will mainly be supplied from the country's agricultural holdings, as well as from abroad.

LLC "Tanus" will produce shoes, the volume of investments will be 700 thousand dollars. The production capacity of the enterprise will be 500 thousand pairs of shoes per year.

Along with the laying of the main stones in the construction of three large enterprises, Emomali Rahmon commissioned a drinking water pipeline.A 4700-meter-long water pipeline in the FEZ was conducted from the Pyanj River.Along with the enterprises of FEZ "Panj", clean drinking water has also been provided to a nearby population of 100 farms.

Here, the president also commissioned a popcorn production facility with an annual production capacity of 100 tons of corn. To build this enterprise CJSC  "Ansor Group" sent 100 thousand dollars. The products of this enterprise along with the sale in the Khatlon region will also be exported to Afghanistan.

Currently, 14 entities are registered in the FEZ and two enterprises for the production of building materials and one enterprise for the provision of logistics services are operating. For 6 months of the current year in the FEZ "Panj" produced industrial products amounting to 82.6 thousand somoni, the volume of investment in this period is equal to 1.7 million somoni.

Today, the President visited the district of Dusti, where in the village of Rohi Nav opened school number 16 for 560 students in one shift.

This object consists of 4 buildings and is built on a total area of 2 hectares. The school consists of 25 classes, classes for physics, chemistry, biology and labor are equipped with the necessary visual training aids. Separate classes are also equipped for military training and computer technology lessons. The school has a sports hall with 200 seats and an assembly hall with 220 seats.Also in the school there are sports grounds for football, volleyball, basketball. The school also has an autonomous coal-fired boiler house that provides warmth in the winter period to all premises of the institution.

In Dusti area , the President ceremoniously put into operation the new building of the Youth Center. The new building of the Center consists of 2 floors, its customer is the Directorate for the construction of government facilities of the President's Executive Office.

This object was built for 2 years to the amount of 4.5 million somoni.