Tashkent, June 9 -- President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has made a decision to kill two birds with one stone. During a video conference on Tuesday, he ordered the leasing of agricultural land to unemployed citizens. This, according to Mirziyoyev, on the one hand, would contribute to the development of agriculture, on the other, to the creation of new jobs.

For this purpose, starting this year, almost 100,000 hectares of land released from grain crops will be provided to the unemployed for the creation of farms. After the cotton harvest, an additional 100,000 hectares of land will be released for this purpose.

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