Almost 50,000 hectares of new gardens created in Uzbekistan

Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.uz) -- Uzbekistan created almost 50,000 hectares of new gardens in 2010-2015, the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov stated at the session of the Cabinet of Ministers on 16 January 2015.

He said that in 2010-2014, new gardens at 50,000 hectares were created, including over 14,000 hectares of intensive gardens, and vineyards – at 23,000 hectares. Over 6 million saplings from Poland, Serbia and other countries were imported to create intensive gardens.

He said that regular fruit trees give yield after 3-4 years, while intensive trees will give yield in 2-3 years. He said that trees, planted in 2011, gave yield in 2014 – 300 centners per hectare.