Members of the working group headed by the Minister of Agriculture, Chairman of the Cotton Growing Council under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Ibrahim Abdurakhmanov visited Surkhandarya region
In order to ensure the consistency of the reforms carried out in the regions in the agricultural sector, familiarization with the work carried out at agricultural facilities, agrotechnical measures carried out in the sown areas, the Minister of Agriculture Ibrahim Abdurakhmanov visits the regions of the republic. The next territory was the Surkhandarya region. The visit of Minister Ibrahim Abdurakhmanov to the Surkhandarya region was accompanied by the Director of the National Center under the Ministry, Secretary of the Council for Cotton Growing under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shukhrat Otajonov. The first point of the visit was the elite seed farm "Ilkhombek Rakhman", located in the Beshkahramon area of the Kumkurgan region. Here, they got acquainted with the field of sowing seeds of the elite Grom variety, brought from the Krasnodar Territory of Russia. The Minister inspected the grain and gave suggestions and recommendations for obtaining seeds of this variety. After that, a cotton plot planted with fine-fiber variety SP-1607 was inspected on 27 hectares of the farm. The necessary agrotechnical measures were carried out on the plot. According to the responsible persons, 40 centners per hectare were collected from the area last year. Minister Ibrahim Abdurakhmanov, having inspected the condition of the cotton, noted that the southern regions of our country are very favorable for growing fine-fiber cotton, focusing on the varietal characteristics, gave recommendations on obtaining seeds from the variety being grown.
The Minister gave instructions for scientists to develop an improved version of the Gin equipment for fine-fiber cotton for industrial processing of SP-1607 and other fine-fiber cotton raw materials, organize work on patenting this variety at the international level in foreign countries and entering it into the register of the international organization UPOS.
As part of the visit program, the Minister visited the field plot of the seed farm "Zharkorgon Opyt" in the Zharkurgan district, where he got acquainted with the vegetative state of the elite variety "Bukhara-10" planted there. Minister Ibrahim Abdurakhmanov, accompanied by members of the Cotton Growing Council, specialists from the Research Institute of Selection, Seed Production and Agrotechnology for Growing Cotton under the Ministry, as well as regional and district officials, having inspected this field, noted that seed preparation should also change the method of sowing in the fields, in particular, sowing in accordance with scheme 76 will increase the yield. During the conversation with scientists and industry specialists, attention was also paid to the importance of introducing drip irrigation technology, planting under film in the southern regions, where the water problem is becoming increasingly urgent. Here, Ibrahim Abdurakhmanov held a meeting with the heads of the regional administration and district department of the Republican Council for Cotton Growing, exchanged opinions on how to process cotton varieties in situations related to the climate of the southern region, and gave instructions to those responsible for the timely and high-quality implementation of agrotechnical measures in the cotton fields that have entered the flowering phase, supporting the proposals put forward. Minister Ibrahim Abdurakhmanov, having familiarized himself with the next item on the program of the visit - sowing cotton seeds in the fields of the Bekali Atkhambek farm in the same district, expressed the opinion that this period is of great importance for increasing the cotton yield and the role of the crop cultivated at this time.