Turkmenistan: Serdar Berdimuhamedov Orders Farm Push, Opens Military Housing Complex

Turkmenistan's President Serdar Berdimuhamedov chaired a work meeting on 19 October on the agricultural sector. Priorities included speeding up cotton picking, finishing wheat sowing within set agrotechnical deadlines and settling accounts with wheat and cotton producers for this year's harvest. Rice harvesting in Dashoguz and Lebap, sugar beet harvesting in Mary and weed control were also assigned.

On 21 October he attended the opening of a new complex of buildings for a Turkmen Armed Forces military unit, including barracks, a canteen, a medical point and a sports ground, as well as two residential buildings for 96 households. On 23 October he chaired a Cabinet of Ministers session by digital link, where decisions were signed on a 546-kilometre Ashgabat–Dashoguz highway and a vegetable oil plant in Dashoguz with capacity of 60,000 tonnes of cottonseed per year.

An international art exhibition, Ene Tebigat (Mother Nature), opened in the capital on 20 October and runs until 30 November. Oguljahan Atabayeva, Leyla Aliyeva and Saida Mirziyoyeva attended the opening.