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The Hunger Steppe is the ancient name of a vast, once totally uninhabited plain with most fertile lands suitable for irrigation. The vain attempts to irrigate the Hunger steppe in order to set up cotton plantations, undertaken in the period from the second half of the past century to the October Socialist Revolution, yielded a gross harvest of raw cotton amounting to 10,000 tons a year.
Regulator on the South Hunger Steppe canal
In the 1950s the Soviet Government decided to create a large cotton-growing area in the Hunger steppe with an area of 300,000 hectares.
The main waterway, the South Hunger steppe canal, was built to irrigate the virgin land zone. It is 126 kilometers long and its discharge at the head is 300 cubic meters per second. Its central network has a discharge of 164 cubic meters per second and the Central Hunger steppe collector has a discharge of 90 cubic meters per second.
The new huge cotton-growing area with the town of Yangi-Er as its administrative center was formed with the commissioning of these projects in the Hunger steppe.
115,000 hectares of newly irrigated lands were additionally developed in the Hunger steppe in the period from 1971 to 1975, and this resulted in growing 400,000 tons of cotton in the virgin land zone in 1975.
Vertical drainage
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Hunger Steppe
Water Management Office |
Windbreak strip
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Yangi-Er - the capital of the Hunger Steppe
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