Entries with the tag: ‘Economy’
Not long ago I was chatting with a friend who dropped a bombshell on me, (figuratively – not literally), when he told me that Kyrgyzstan was on of the top Cotton producers in the world. I expressed my surprise … I know that cotton is often listed as one of the country’s main agricultural products […]
The other day we had a visit at the hotel from some officials who seemed to be convinced that there was “something wrong”. It’s not the first time we’ve had such a visit – so we went into “automatic mode” and asked – “where are your papers?”. They fished out their ID-cards and so that […]
Today is the second of the St, George’s Day of 2013. It’s actually St. Yuri’s Day, but Yuri is one of the Russian equivalents of George. In the Orthodox calendar, Russians commemorate two St. George’s Day: the first in the Spring falls on April 23rd – as in the West – but there is a […]
Today happens to be International Day Against Pesticides. It is not an official UN recognized commemorative day, but was established by the 400 members of the Pesticide Action Network International, (PAN). Their aim was to draw attention to problems caused by production and use of hazardous chemicals used as pesticides in order to increase cop […]
The Kyrgyz Republic has the potential of being a source of energy for many regions within Central Asia. Whereas neighbouring countries may be rich in mineral resources like oil (Kazakhstan) and Gas (Uzbekistan), Kyrgyzstan has only limited deposits of oil and gas. There are however, extensive deposits of coal – and considerable potential for the […]
It’s been announced that with something like 90% of the harvest completed, (from just over 198 thousand of the almost 223 hectares planted), Kyrgyzstan has collected over 770 tons of grain which is 40 tons than in the same period last year. Although gathering in the harvest is almost complete in the southern regions, […]
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