DUSHANBE, January 21, Asia-Plus –  Population of fine-wooled sheep is planned to have increased to 20,000 in GBAO’s Darvoz district over the next five years.    

Speaking in an interview with Pamir Media, the Darvoz chairman Saydali Musofirov noted that the program for development of livestock farming had been worked out by president’s instruction.   

In the Soviet time, Darvoz’s farming unit Saghirdasht, engaged in pedigree stock-breeding, had had more than 20,000 head of fine-wooled sheep but as a result of the civil war their number had sharply decreased and Saghirdasht now has less then 4,000 head of fine-wooled sheep.