Article: Cotton growers cannot repay bank debts.

March 20, 2009, (TCA Editions) -- Cotton farmers in Tajikistan say that the reduced market for their product means that they are unable to repay their loans to Tajik banks. Nurali Turdiev, a farmer in southern Khatlon Province, said that he cannot repay his $3,500 debt to the bank because he cannot sell his cotton. There are some 56,000 cotton farmers in Khatlon Province who borrowed a total of 550 million somoni (US $142m) from local commercial banks with an annual interest rate of 25 percent. Khatlon Governor Ghaybulloh ...

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