DUSHANBE, November 4, 2011, Asia-Plus  -- Top managers of the Karpovsky State Farm in the Gorodinshchensky district of Russia’s Volgograd oblast have applied to the Migration Service of Tajikistan, asking to send 250 Tajik farmers to their farm for doing agricultural work, according to the Migration Service’s representative office in Russia.

“During the meeting with an employee of the Migration Service’s representative office in Russia, the director of the Karpovsky State Farm Vladimir Chunikhin said they have longstanding good experience of recruiting manpower from Tajikistan,” said the source.  “The sides agreed that 250 Tajik nationals – irrigation operators, machine operators, builders, drivers and vegetable growers -- will be recruited for farm work in the mentioned state farm.”

Some 50 our country-fellowmen are currently working in the Karpovsky State Farm, he added.