Tashkent, May 25 -- A company in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has exported drip irrigation technology under plastic film mulch to Uzbekistan.

The technology has been applied to cotton fields, covering an area of 406.7 hectares in the Sirdaryo state of Uzbekistan as a modern water-saving demonstration project, said Yang Kaiwen, a planning director of the project management center from the Xinjiang Tianye water-saving irrigation corporation.

Initiated at the beginning of this year, the project saw irrigation facilities and related machines delivered from China at the end of February. Installation and application of the irrigation system took one and a half months, said Yang.

Compared with regular irrigation and plan...