How Tajikistan Farmers Are Learning To Fight Climate Change

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Amidst all the turmoil that the world is going through due to the ever mutating Covid-19 virus and its strange will to wipe out humanity, there are places that are making sense out of all the turmoil. Tajikistan is one of them


Photo courtesy: Tajikistan News


The small country of Tajikistan has to its credit a harvest of almost 500 tonnes of green house tomatoes. This is part of its rich bounty of 900 and more tonnes of vegetables harvested. Green house tunnels or overhead artificially created greenhouse environments are becoming a preferred way to cultivate nutrient rich vegetables and fruits. 

According to the Department of Crop Production of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Tajikistan, greenhouse vegetables grow on a surface of ​​about 86 hectares.

With the way environmental conditions have been ravaging the crop in Tajikistan, this is a huge bounty of naturally grown fruits and vegetables for the country. 

Economic instability and environmental concerns have been pushing the country to a point of starvation and poverty for the longest time. The small mountainous country started to experience devastation due to climate change since 2009.

The people of Tajikistan, a small, mountainous country in Central Asia, are experiencing the impacts of climate change. More frequent droughts and heightened extreme weather conditions had hit poor communities, eroding their resilience. The country’s glaciers have continued to melt, bringing the danger, in the future, of greater water shortages and even disputes in the wider region. 

Last summer’s unusually good rains and consequent harvest brought some relief to rural communities across Tajikistan but the long-term trends are clear – and ominous. 

Tajikistan is one of the countries least responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions that are causing climate change. It ranks around 109th in the world for all greenhouse gas emissions and 129th in emissions per capita.

But these kinds of adaptions have helped farmers become more resilient to changing and challenge weather conditions owing to climate change. The richness of this cost effective experiment of developing greenhouse funnels above the earth surface has shown promising results.

Vegetables were planted in greenhouses (tunnels) on an area of ​​85.1 hectares in Tajikistan this year. Tomatoes are grown on an area of ​​53.2 hectares, cucumbers – 15 hectares, and other types of vegetables grow in the rest of the greenhouses.

 


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