Turkmenistan`s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a decree to provide cotton sowing in 545,000 hectares of sown areas and cotton collection in the amount of 1.0 million tonenes in 2009. In 2008 cotton-growers succeeded in gathering the same volume slightly exceeding 2007. The document stipulates to allocate sowing seeds in the country given natural-soil terms of territories and upon the plan approved by the Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Agriculture.

The document was signed to realize decisions made on basic reformation of agriculture, to increase volumes of cotton owing to rational use of land, water resources, agricultural equipment and mineral fertilizers and high quality agro technical service.