Sughd viloyat authorities evaluated highly the aid rendered by studying youth to the agrarian sector in cotton-harvest 2003. Solid monetary renumerations and valuable presents handed in by the viloyat Hukumat to students and pedagogues of higher schools testify not only to the changed attitude to the so-called voluntary helpers; we see that the authorities intend to preserve the traditions based on patriotism and mutual aid either over a month the studying youth of Northern Tajikistan was in the so-called laboring semester annually befalling cotton harvest. This year over six thousand tons of cotton were collected by students. The farms sustaining deficiency of working hands were rendered assistance with now don't enable them to use harvesting technique. Combines are standing idle because of non-availability of spare parts and too expensive combustible-lubricating stuffs. There are no resources for cotton defoliation either. In this situation manual collection of cotton is the only way out. But the problem is how the drive should be mobilized. The viloyat Hukumat is the only institution one can rely on. Here they do understand that when building up a new society one shouldn't discard all the positive accumulated under the Soviet power. Mobilization of society to the jobs of state importance just refers to these phenomena, as Sughd viloyat authorities presume. There is no need to explain the importance of cotton for the economy of Tajikistan. However, the preserved tradition with annual dispatch of students to cotton fields doesn't enjoy a unanimous opinion. The problem is especially meticulous now when a creation of a law-abiding democratic society is on the agenda of today's life. Not everyone is able to respond to bare calls. Nevertheless, this year the authorities declared they are inclined to organize a laboring semester otherwise. Stimulating factors included not only a worthy payment, but benefits for the best collectors either. This time words and deeds didn't contradict each other.
Already at the beginning of 2003, being very difficult for all agrarian, it was clear for them that they won't do without "voluntary" helpers. Taking into consideration the complicated situation because of late cotton ripening leaders of the majority of households-farms asked for urgent aid on the part of urban residents, students chiefly. To say the truth, this time they prepared well for the harvest. Accommodations for cotton collectors were significantly improved, they were paid well. And now students have enjoyed a new form of official gratitude on the part of the authorities for their six thousand tons of cotton. The best collective was granted 10000 somoni - it was Khujand filial of the Tajik Polytechnic University named after Muhammad Osimi that deserved this honor. Fair monetary renumeration went to the students of Khujand State University named after academician Bobojon Ghafurov and Khujand filial of the State University of Commerce. Khushnud Mamadqulov, student of the Polytechnic University collected 4 tons 800 kilograms of cotton throughout the period of the harvest and Murodali Rahimov, student of KSU - four ton. Elena Petrova from the University of Commerce picked up three tons of valuable technical raw stuff. They were presented respectively computer, refrigerator and colored TV-sets. Many students are exempt from tuition payment. Their studies will be paid by the Hukumat.
Sughd viloyat governor Qosim Qosimov in his speech held before the large audience of students, representatives of education and agriculture told a lot of good words about adolescents. In particular, he remarked that the final result achieved by the viloyat farms couldn't be available without students' assistance, patriotism of the young. Upon the whole, Sughd viloyat has stored 143 thousand tons of raw cotton for agricultural season - 2003. Quoting the chief of the section on social-cultural issues, ties with social-political formations and relations between nations under Sughd viloyat Hukumat Abduhakim Sharipov, the resources allotted for stimulation of students' labor averaged 64800 somoni.