(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 22. The Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provides
support in landscaping and implementation of the National Forest
Program of Turkmenistan, a source at FAO told trend .
According to the information, within the framework of the FAO
and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) project, two nurseries (1
ha each) and a demonstration site (about 3 ha) were created in
January 2023 at the production sites of the Baherden and Dashoguz
forestry enterprises, as well as on the territory of the training
farm of the Turkmen Agricultural University Named after S.A.
Niyazov.
The work was carried out within the framework of the FAO/GEF
regional project Integrated Natural Resources Management in
Drought-prone and Salt-affected Agricultural Production Systems in
Central Asia and Türkiye (CACILM-2).
Various types of trees will be grown in nurseries, and various
agro-reclamation measures will be carried out on the demonstration
site to reduce the level of secondary salinization, modern methods
of growing salt-resistant and drought-resistant crops will be
introduced.
In order to expand gardening territories in various soil and
climatic conditions of the country, the project purchased 25,000
seedlings of fruit and berry crops for the Ministry of Agriculture
and Environmental Protection of Turkmenistan, the main partner of
the project for the implementation of the National Forest
Program.
Meanwhile, the five-year FAO/GEF CACILM-2 project with a budget
of more than $75 million began its work in May 2018 and is one of
the largest initiatives in the field of rational management of
natural resources funded by the governments of participating
countries.
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