Kyrgyz farmers threaten agriculture Minister with corn

The agrarians, dissatisfied with the policy of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kyrgyzstan, threaten to present the head of the Ministry of Agriculture with a sack of corn if he does not fulfill their demands. Agronomist Bakyt Dzhumaliyev said this today, September 30, reports 24.kg. According to him, representatives of the republic's maize growers' association have repeatedly appealed to the ministry and tried to meet with the head of the agricultural department to tell him about their problems, but all this was unsuccessful. Dzhumaliev noted that due to the export ban, more than 400 thousand tons of corn crops could rot in the fields and warehouses. He also said that agrarians demand from the Minister of Agriculture to solve the problem with watering winter crops, revise fertilizer prices, halve the cost of land lease and stop the transformation of farmland. “When you first came to this position, we breathed a sigh of relief, since you are a farmer yourself and in ...