DUSHANBE, December 4, Asia-Plus - A cotton harvesting campaign has ended with reaching 80.5 percent of the national cotton target that has been determined at 547,000 tons.  Over the past week, Tajik cotton farmers have yielded only 420 tons of cotton. 

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection (MoAEP), Tajikistan has gathered 440,245 tons of cotton this year.  

Saidmurod Bahriddinov, the head of the MoAEP department for industrial crops, said in an interview with Asia-Plus that districts subordinate to the center (RRP) had yielded 48,542 tons of cotton, which is 3.9 percent of their target of 46,700 tons of cotton. 

Cotton growers in the Khatlon province have yielded 258,780 tons of cotton this year, which is 78.6 percent of the target determined at 329,000 tons.

The northern province of Sughd has gathered 132,995 tons of cotton this year, which is 77.6 percent of the target.  The target was 171,300 tons of cotton.   

In 2005, Tajik cotton farmers yielded 447,918 tons of cotton, which was 73.8 percent of the target that had been determined at 610,00 tons of cotton.