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Location
Asht region (40 ° 45»N 70 ° 25»E) with an area of about 2800 
km2 is the most extreme northern region of Tajikistan on the 
border with Uzbekistan. In this area, almost all land is irrigated 
using cascade pumps, where the largest has 6 rises. As of January 
2020, the population of the district was about 168,000 people.

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Экономика и управление
Table 1. 
Asht district, Sughd region, Tajikistan
Overview of currently used methods for water supply 
services in Tajikistan.
In the Republic of Tajikistan, the water management complex 
is the most important component of the national wealth, which 
is widely used in almost all spheres, but, like in other Central 
Asian countries, a large amount is used in irrigation.
In practice, the country uses two types of tariff determination 
for water withdrawals: one-rate and two-rate. The one-rate tariff 
is applied for production and communal needs not related 
to irrigation. The tariff is set for 1m3 of water supply at the 
point of water discharge. The two-part tariff provides for the 
establishment of payment for water supply for the needs of 
irrigation and watering on the basis of per hectare and per 
cubic meter rate.
The two-part tariff used in Tajikistan includes fees per 
hectare based on the crop irrigated.
Pumping irrigation in Asht region
In Asht region, a total of 33 pumps are used to irrigate 2,123 
hectares of land, which in 2019 used about 200 million kilowatts 
of electricity worth about 15 million somoni (approximately $ 1 
million). And the collection for water supply services amounted 
to about 4 million somoni (352 thousand dollars). If we compare 
these amounts, then the price for the use of electricity is 11 
times higher than the collected volume of water supply. In 
addition, there are other costs such as employee salaries, fall / 
winter events, and other operating costs. Due to the fact that 
the debt of irrigation facilities is growing from year to year, the 
state since 2018 has decided to pay for most of the electricity 
consumed directly from the subsidy, but as a result, it excluded 
all operating costs from the budget.
For 2019, only 737,500 somoni ($ 64,665.11) were allocated 
from the state budget only for the payment of employee salaries 
and other mandatory payments. (Data taken from unpublished 

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