The Turkmengallaonumleri association will reconstruct and build 14 bakeries and 2 elevators in the cities and villages of Turkmenistan by 2012. It is expected that the Turkmenbashi bread-baking plant will be commissioned in 2009. The plant will produce 10 thousand tonnes of bread and other farinaceous foods a year. Modern elevators will be built in the grain growing districts of Atamurat and Halach next year.

Three new schools and a new physical and mathematical department of the Turkmen Makhtumkuli State University were inaugurated in Ashgabat on the first day of the new academic year. New facilities were built by Turkish companies Polimeks and Bashyazyjyoglu Inshaat and French Bouygues company.

Ulyanovsk plants have secured agreements on increasing the supply of their products to Turkmenistan. The agreements were reached during the Russian National Exhibition in Ashgabat on August 29-31, the press service of the Ulyanovsk region administration said.

Agromash Holding company will supply one thousand tractors worth US $ 40 million to Turkmenistan in the beginning of 2009, the Volgograd's administration press service said. It is reported that the contract amounts to a half year production of the Volgograd Tractor Plant.