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In the early 2000s, the contribution of Turkmenistan ’ s state-run agriculture sector to gross domestic product increased under close state supervision.
As during the Soviet era, cotton is the dominant agricultural commodity because it is an export staple.
However, in recent years state policy makers have increased the range of crops with the aim of making Turkmenistan self-sufficient in food.
Turkmenistan ’ s irrigation infrastructure and water-use policies have not responded efficiently to this need.
Irrigation now depends mainly on the decrepit Garagum Canal, which carries water across Turkmenistan from the Amu Darya.
The Dostluk dam, opened at Serakhs on the Iranian border in 2005, has increased available irrigation water and improved efficiency.
Private farmers grow most of Turkmenistan ’ s fruits and vegetables ( chiefly tomatoes, watermelons, grapes, and onions ), but all production phases of the main cash crops — grain and cotton — remain under state control.
In 2006 grain crop failures led to steadily increasing bread lines and reinstatement of a ration system in most regions.
At the root of those failures was a culture of falsifying output figures together with poor administration of the sector
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