On July 21, a mini-workshop for processing essential oil extracts and producing dried herbs took place in the At-Bashi district of the Naryn region. Local residents will supply medicinal herbs to the workshop.
The event brought together officials, businessmen and international donors.
It was noted that the workshop will allow villagers to improve their well-being through the cultivation and supply of herbs for the production of high-quality products used in various industries: cosmetics, food, medicine and pharmaceuticals.
The workshop’s production capacity allows it to process up to 3 thousand kilograms of herbs per day, and it will employ up to 10 people from low-income families.
In addition, more than a thousand vulnerable people took part in training on agricultural technologies for planting medicinal plants (chamomile, valerian, calendula, sage, mint) to supply raw materials for the workshop.
The founder of the workshop is Dordoi-Dary LLC. The head of the Dordoi association, Askar Salymbekov, noted that this small workshop could become a large plant in the future.
He gave examples of several countries that grow medicinal herbs and live comfortably. So, in Tibet, various medicines are made from such herbs and then sold for fantastic prices, and some companies make perfume worth 100 euros from essential oils.
Salymbekov is sure that working with herbs is much more profitable than just planting potatoes. After all, the region, according to him, is strewn with these gifts.
Japan, which is already exporting honey and nuts from Kyrgyzstan, is ready to buy the products. The main requirement of the Land of the Rising Sun is no chemicals, only environmentally friendly products. Exports can already start within a year.
Several districts of the region are working on the project, each of which has chosen its own seedling.
Afterwards, the journalists visited the farmers of the Ak-Zhar ayil aimak of the At-Bashi region. The district works with chamomile, which was specially brought from Germany.
Project participant Zhanyl Kuramaeva said that 100 grams of such chamomile covers 1 hectare of land. At the same time, as the woman notes, German chamomile is very capricious and requires a lot of water and care.
“Before October, we can harvest this harvest six times, selling it to the workshop at 100 soms per 1 kg. The price doesn’t suit us, so we hope it will be raised,” the farmer said.
Residents of the area are thinking about trying to grow valerian in the future.
Let us add that the workshop in the Naryn region was opened thanks to the UN World Food Program in the Kyrgyz Republic (WFP) with the financial support of the Japanese government and Dordoi-Dary LLC.
Media source:
https://www.akchabar.kg/ru/news/romashka-obogatit-narynskuyu-oblast/