During the session of the Government of March 29, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov focused on the improvement of the mechanisms and forms of international cooperation in the promotion of national production in foreign markets, creation of the conditions for the activation of business and encouragement of private initiative for the improvement of the competitiveness of the industrial complex of the country and introduction of advanced practice and innovative technologies in this sphere.

The farmers of the Dashoguz velayat started cotton sowing campaign, where the sowing season starts somewhat later than in other regions of the country.

Ashgabat hosted a Turkmen-Iranian business forum, timed to coincide with the official visit by President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hassan Rouhani to Turkmenistan. Attended by representatives of the two countries’ business circles, the forum focused on identifying prospective areas of trade-economic cooperation given the national development programs and priorities of regional cooperation.

The meeting to take place in the building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry will be aimed at intensifying the partnership between business circles of the two countries. The leaders of key structures of the Iranian economy, representatives of companies working in such spheres as construction and energy; mining business; textile and medical industry; agriculture; trade; transport and logistics; engineering and insurance are expected to participate in the meeting.

On 29-31 March the building of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Turkmenistan will host the exhibition of national industry of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The exposition will feature companies working in such spheres as tourism; mechanical engineering; energy; oil and gas; textile, typographical, chemical and mining industries; trade; transport and logistics; as well as producers of construction materials and equipment, leather goods, medical supplies and food.

On 31 March Ashgabat will host the International Scientific Conference “Turkmenistan’s Chemical Industry on the Path of Progress”. The Forum will be held in conjunction with the Day of Chemical Industry Workers. Issues that will dominate the agenda of the upcoming meeting include achievements in Turkmenistan’s chemical industry, its prospects, strengthening and widening partnerships with all interested countries, and exchange of experience. Representatives of major foreign companies are expected to participate in the conference.

The President of Turkmenistan signed a Resolution “On Rice Production in Turkmenistan in 2018”. According to the document, a total area of 18 thousand 300 hectares is planned to be sown this year to produce 82 thousand 400 tons of rice in Dashoguz and Lebap provinces.

21 transactions was registered at the trades of the State Commodity and Raw Material exchange of Turkmenistan last week.

Sowing cotton, an important agricultural campaign began in the country. In accordance with the decree of the Head of the state, on March 23, cotton growers of the Akhal, Lebap and Mary velayats started their sowing campaign. Little later - on March 28 - farmers from the Dashoguz velayat will join them.

The Ministry of Finance and Economy held the conference on the key directions of the forthcoming work in the context of the implementation of the State Programme to Support Small and Medium-sized Entrepreneurship in Turkmenistan in 2018-2024 and the plan of relevant activities for this period, which were approved by the Resolution of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on March 16, 2018.