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Advanced Irrigated Agriculture February 9-13, 2004, Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
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Organization of the training workshops on "Advanced Irrigated Agriculture" was urgently conditioned with the increasing necessity for dissemination of available practical and scientific-research knowledge, which have been accumulated in five of the Central Asian countries during their economic transformation to market relations in water and agricultural sectors, which in turn was complicated with the severe impact of drought period for the past few years and necessity to increase a wider implementation of advanced water saving technologies. Water resources of the Aral Sea Basin are considered a strategic resource for the all of the countries of Central Asia where overwhelming percentage of it is used in irrigated agriculture. Irrigation in the basin has a thousands years of practice in the valleys of the Amudarya and Syrdarya Rivers. Irrigation infrastructure that was built during the Soviet era is one of the complicated ones in the world and nowadays suffers with inefficient operation.
The program and topics of the workshop that went through the approval process of the ICWC and oriented at creating the suitable conditions for exchange of advantageous experiences and ideas for solving the problems of irrigated agriculture between the specialists practitioners and scientists - employees of the high and middle levels of reclamation services of water management authorities from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and employees of scientific - research institutes.
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