Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rakhmonov has asked the Agriculture Ministry and other agencies concerned to speed up the supply of early vegetables and fruit to Russia and to ensure the highest quality of offered products, sources in the presidential administration told Itar-Tass. He also promised to personally control implementation of this task. “The agreement was achieved at the meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi. Russia needs extra import of vegetables and fruit due to last year’s poor harvest,” Rakhmonov said. Several days ago he said Tajikistan would double the supply of vegetables and fruit to Russia. The chief of the foreign economic ties department of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, Khikmatulo Gulyumov, has said the Tajik producers would be able to export to Russia and Kazakhstan over 164,000 tonnes vegetables and fruit and to do so at once. The Agriculture Ministry Official has said Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Russia this year have reduced railway transit fees by 50 percent, which would speed up the delivery and reduce costs. (Itar-Tass)