The President of Turkmenistan for the shortcomings in the work not performed assigned duties" sacked the heads of eight agricultural regions of the country.The relevant decrees of the President published by his press service.

Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov noted in the official comments of his meeting with heads of administrations, ordered to rebuild the activities of the administrations of the regions and districts of the country with the aim of improving the efficiency of agricultural.

"Leaders etraps (districts) are responsible for the productivity of all agricultural procedures aimed at their assigned area, including improving the profitability of livestock farms", - quotes the President's press service.

Special emphasis on increasing livestock production the President made on the ground this year the enlarged government meeting held last week. It "unsatisfactory state of Affairs in the development of the livestock industry," the President reprimanded Deputy Prime Minister of Annarelli Asmaradana, responsible for development of agriculture.

As explained in the Ministry of agriculture of the Republic, to increase livestock production is planned to construct 48 modern livestock facilities that will allow to increase the production of meat to 656,8 thousand tons, milk - up to 2.5 million tons. This significantly exceeds the performance of 2014, said the Ministry. At the same time, the government contracts for the production of grain and cotton remains the same - 1, 6 million tons of wheat and 1, 05 million tons of cotton.