Nature of Turkmenistan is rich in diverse wild useful plants used in industry, medicine and agriculture. One of them is sweet-root or liquorice, permanent herbaceous legume plant creating brushwood in the inundated areas located on the interfluve, valleys of rivers Amyderya and Syrdarya. The valued part of the plant includes its root, which is also called sweet-root.
It is one of the oldest medicinal plants in history of medicine. In modern medicine, liquorice is mainly used as asolventia for catarrhal diseases of the respiratory tract. The value of liquorice made medicines has rapidly grown as soon as its anti-ulcer immunostimulating, immunomodulatory, antiviral and antiallergenic properties have been established.
At present, in Turkmenistan, the territory under liquorice has been fixed and yearly it produces several thousand tons of raw material, which is processed by joint-stock production enterprise “Buyan”. It seems that the population of liquorice root is satisfactory and its areas of growth is substantial. However, scientists note that intensive exploitation of natural brushwood of liquorice, excessive development of inundated areas under other agricultural crops as well as consequences of turbulent character of the Amyderya washing the area under liquorice with every passing year reduces the territory of growth of this valuable plant. Scientists have developed the scientifically elaborated system for rational use and intensive technology for recovery of natural brushwoods of liquorice and more qualitatively growth of this plant in other natural zones of the country.
Among the proposals made are cultivation of liquorice in oasis sands where the plant would serve fortification for shifting sands, enriching soils, and good predecessor for other agricultural crops. The lands freed from liquorice are considered rather fertile as the roots of the plant accumulates biologic nitrogen in the upper layer of the soil facilitating its qualitatively improvement. All this creates together a real opportunity for formation of reliable and long-term raw material basis for a highly profitable branch. Improvement of liquorice brushwoods will ensure reliable fodder supply for nearby cattle breeding husbandries as well.
It is one of the oldest medicinal plants in history of medicine. In modern medicine, liquorice is mainly used as asolventia for catarrhal diseases of the respiratory tract. The value of liquorice made medicines has rapidly grown as soon as its anti-ulcer immunostimulating, immunomodulatory, antiviral and antiallergenic properties have been established.
At present, in Turkmenistan, the territory under liquorice has been fixed and yearly it produces several thousand tons of raw material, which is processed by joint-stock production enterprise “Buyan”. It seems that the population of liquorice root is satisfactory and its areas of growth is substantial. However, scientists note that intensive exploitation of natural brushwood of liquorice, excessive development of inundated areas under other agricultural crops as well as consequences of turbulent character of the Amyderya washing the area under liquorice with every passing year reduces the territory of growth of this valuable plant. Scientists have developed the scientifically elaborated system for rational use and intensive technology for recovery of natural brushwoods of liquorice and more qualitatively growth of this plant in other natural zones of the country.
Among the proposals made are cultivation of liquorice in oasis sands where the plant would serve fortification for shifting sands, enriching soils, and good predecessor for other agricultural crops. The lands freed from liquorice are considered rather fertile as the roots of the plant accumulates biologic nitrogen in the upper layer of the soil facilitating its qualitatively improvement. All this creates together a real opportunity for formation of reliable and long-term raw material basis for a highly profitable branch. Improvement of liquorice brushwoods will ensure reliable fodder supply for nearby cattle breeding husbandries as well.
