EXTENSION OF IRRIGATION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP07-02247R000200200005-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 19, 1945
• Content Type: FORM

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Extension of irrigation (For specific installation see
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DATE PUBLISHED 19 Sept 49
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Extensive irrigation work, now under way in the Uzbek SSR, will open an additional
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110,000 hectares to cotton cultivation during the next two years, according to
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Peter Markov, Assistant Chief of the Irrigation Administration of the People's
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Commissariat of Agriculture. The allocation for this development is 5009000,000
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rubles.
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Uzbek cotton, which accounts for two-thirds of the Soviet Union's total output of
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cotton, is almost entirely grown on irrigated lands.
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?During the prewar years, some 60 new major irrigation installations and about 500
pumping stations were built in Uzbekistan. The Great Fergana Canal (549 km. long)
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was built in 1939, to divert water for irrigation from the
Syr-Darya River.
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The following construction projects will be pushed, resumed or started in this re-
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1. The KattaKurgan Reservoir, in the valley of the Zeravahan River, with a capacity
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of 668,000,000 cubic meters of water. It will open 65,000 hectares of now unused
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land for cotton cultivation and will provide sufficient water to irrigate 390,000
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hectares of plantations suffering from a shortage of water. This reservoir is
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slated for completion first;
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2. The Urie-Tokay Reservoir on the Kassansay River
with a capacity of 100 million
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cubic meters of water;
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3. The North Tashkent Canal (first section), which will irrigate a large agricultural
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zone around Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan.
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The toji volume of the excavation work that has to be done on the irrigation system
exceeds 85,000,000 cal meters` (four 3rt~es that o i6 on the"tl ?ea Prgana Can&l3.
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Mao ifl th th chi nization of tfie''c netruction sites is planned and they are to ahortiy
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receive another 450 power shovels, ditch diggers and other excavation machines. The
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required quantities of timber and cement have already been received.
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The collective farmers are displaying great interest and are offering t;, take an ac-
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tive part in the construction work; this eliminates the labor supply problem. It
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is estimated that some 8,000 engineers and other specialists will be needed to take
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