러시아ㆍ유라시아

The purpose of this paper was to introduce agricultural status of the Tajikistan republic for whom are interested in agriculture of Tajikistan. Tajikistan is situated in the south-east of Central Asia and shares borders with Afghanistan, China, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. The total land area of the Republic is 143.1 thousands km2 and 93 percent of the territory is mountain, and nearly half of the country area is located at 3,000 masl and above. Agriculture accounts for approximately 21.4% of GDP in 2011, and approximately 74% of the population resides in rural areas, and 49.8% of the work force is engaged in agricultural production in 2009. Because of a little amount of precipitation, almost all of arable land(702 thousands ha, 94.6%) should be irrigated. Important crops in Tajikistan are wheat, cotton,barley, corn, potato, onion, rice, and tomato. Because of low crop productivity Tajikistan imports many agricultural products including wheat, wheat flour, and potato. The livestock industry occupied 21.7% of total agricultural product and important livestock are cattle, sheep, goat, rabbit and chicken. There are about 5,000 plant species in Tajikistan, including 650 endemic species and Tajikistan is homeland for fifty plant species including dwarf wheat, sesame, melon, radish, garlic, apple, pear, grape, and berries,etc. The total amount of conserved samples ex situ is 5317, out of which 981 are local varieties and landraces, and 1775 are breeding materials. At present, though there is no agriculture technical cooperative project between Korea and Tajikistan, it will be needed to develop cooperative projects in various field of agriculture in the near future. Plant genetic resources can be a good example of cooperative projects on the basis of mutual profit.