Turmush — Hundreds of people met the President Sadyra Japarov on the road near one of the largest rice markets in the Batken region.
Turmush wrote that the president arrived on a working trip to the Batken region on May 6. While traveling through the Kadamzhay district, the president’s motorcade stopped near the market in the Torgovy area in the village of Halmion (now the settlement of Zhenish, which is part of the Iskhak-Polotkhan village aimag).
Hundreds of people from among the residents and those who arrived at the market in the Torgovy area met the head of state. Sadyr Japarov said that he arrived in the Batken region to familiarize himself with the situation at the borders. He is accompanied by the Chairman of the State Border Service of the Kyrgyz Republic, Major General Abdikarim Alimbaev.
Every Wednesday there is active trade in agricultural products at the market in the Torgovy area. Mainly it is rice, which is cultivated by farmers of the Kadamzhai region.
The market is located along the Osh-Batken-Razzakov highway. There is a checkpoint across the Kyrgyz-Uzbek border located nearby – it borders the Rishtan region of Uzbekistan. In the other direction, the road passes through the Uzbek enclave of Sokh.
Turmush previously wrotethat the largest market for selling rice in the Batken region is located in the Torgovy village of Ak-Turpak, Kadamjay district. Traders and shoppers from all over the region flock here every Wednesday. On good days, up to 200 tons of rice are put up for sale – wholesale prices. Large quantities of rice are exported to Uzbekistan and Russia.
The wholesale price of rice for the “laser”, “andijan”, “vzros”, “alanga” and “devzire” varieties varies from 95 to 250 soms per kilogram.
