IRRIGATION CANAL

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP07-02247R000200220008-8
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 1, 1953
• Content Type: FORM

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Soviet Union No. 11 4
MAJOR PRODUCT
By TISHA ZAKHIDOV, President of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences
Encircled by lofty mountain ranges the picturesque Ferghana Valley belongs at once
to three Soviet republics the Uzbek, the Tajik, and the Kirghiz.
This valley is rightly considered one of the richest districts of Soviet Central,
Asia, and is a huge base for the development of cotton, silk, vine and fruit-growing.
The many rivers that speed down the.sides of the mountains spread fan-like as they reach
the bottom of the valley. Irrigation canals bring their waters to the fields, forming
an oasis of irrigated farming. But in the central parts of the valley there is still
much land that bears no crops. And it is to bring this land within the sphere of
cultivation that a new irrigation system is being established.
The valley lies half-smothered in the vendure of cotton-plant, mulberry-trees, orchards
and vineyards. But the valley's wealth is not confined to fruits of the soil. Ferghana
is mostly proud of its highly developed industry, its various mineral deposits, and its
wealth of hydro-power. Big industrial towns, modernized collective-farm settlements,
and the buildings of machine and tractor stations, are now an integral part of the
Ferghana landscape.
Large-scale indusrry has made great progress here. It need only be mentioned that under
Soviet rule the production of elec tricity has increased 40-fold, oil 55-fold, and
coal 12-fold, New industries have been set up, including the chemical, cement, engineer-
ing, cotton, and silk-weaving industries.
Under the leadership of the Communist Party and with the assistance of the great
Russian nation the people of Ferghana have transformed the entire area. New irrigation
systems have been built and old ones reconstructed. The water famine that had
existed for ages is now a thing of the past. More than ninety percent of cotton sowing
and cultivation has been mechanized, and cotton output has increased by 150 percent
as against 1913.
Other branches of Ferghana's economy have also made remarkable strides ahead.
On instructions from the Government of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, the
Republic's A,-nA^m~r of Si noes has made an extensive study of Ferghana's resources to
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furnish the basis for palnning the further development of Ferghana's productive
possibiliteis in tie valley and proposed the development of an additional 593,000
acres of'land lying cheifly in Central Ferghana. The Uzbek collective farmers are alread
tackling this task.
The decisions of the September Pen num of the CentralcCommittee of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union provide for a considerable increase in yields and the
creation of new varieties of cotton, including early ripeners. The government of the
republic has worked out a series of measures which will make it possible within the
next few years to multiply the output of Ferghana cotton by 150 per cent, and of silk
worth cocoons by 100 to 200 per cent. The afliount of fruit picked in the Ferghana Valley
can be raised 500 to 700 per cent within the next 3 or 4 five-year plan periods.
The people of the Ferghana Valley are contributing their full share towards the
further economic advancement of the Socialitt Motherland.
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