Russia and Turkmenistan have prospects for cooperation in rice growing

Russia and Turkmenistan have recently started cooperating in rice growing, and there are prospects in this area. This was reported to journalists by Viktor Kovalev, Deputy Director for Research at the Russian Federal Scientific Rice Center, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences. "Currently, there is cooperation [between Russia and Turkmenistan], but it has not been very effective so far, because it began quite recently. It began with variety testing of our varieties here. <…> There is a prospect for cooperation. I can say, using Kazakhstan as an example, that 80% of the varieties [of rice] there are our Russian varieties, which are successfully grown," he answered a question from TASS on the sidelines of the international scientific conference "Achievements and Objectives in Seed Growing of Agricultural Crops." As Kovalev explained, the peculiarity of rice growing in Turkmenistan is that rice is planted after harvesting wheat, which means a short growing season. Therefore, Russian ...