Hothouse complex for growing of vegetables was put into operation in Mary Velayat. The facility was built in Mary etrap in the context of realization of the programmes of increment of import substitutive and export oriented production.

Opening ceremony of Polyethylene bags and polypropylene pipes production facility took place in Bayramaly, Mary Velayat. Representatives of velayat and etrap administration, the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, public organizations, honoured elders and youth took part in the event. The best construction workers received valuable gifts.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov made working trip around the capital and inspected the projects of further architectural and infrastructural development of the city prepared under investment and construction programme at the request of the Hyakim of Ashgabat.

New Year greetings and wishes of happiness and prosperity to President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and to Turkmen people were addressed by President of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad and his spouse, President of the Republic of Armenia Armen Sarkisyan, Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, the Türksoy Secretary general Dyusen Kaseyinov, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, State Advisor of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Russian Federation M. Shaimiyev, family member of the sheikhs of the State of Qatar Sheikh Faisal Bin Naser Bin Hamad Al Thani.

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held first video conference session in 2019 where Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers who supervises agricultural sector as well as hyakims of the velayats took part.

Importance and scale of manmade Altyn Asyr Turkmen Lake, which is built in the centre of Karakum Desert, a grandiose ecological and hydrological project aimed at the improvement of the environment, rational use of water and land resources, have been mentioned at the video conference session on January.

According to the Orders of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov:

During the video conference session on January 7, the Head of the State requested Vice-premier E. Orazgeldiyev to organize the work in Turkmen Agricultural University for collection and development of the vocabulary of catchphrases dedicated to the work of farmers, careful attitude to water and land, speciality of cultivation of agricultural crops, practice of old days farming. In addition, the book has to include the terms, which are widely used today in agricultural complex.

It is a great honour for me to inform Your Excellency that Osaka Kansai has been elected as a place for the World Exhibition EXPO 2025 at the elections, which were held during the Bureau International des Expositions General Assembly in Paris. On behalf of the Government of Japan, let me extend my gratitude for Turkmenistan’s support, - the message of Prime Minister of Japan Sinzo Abe to President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov says.

Greeting messages on New Year 2019 continue coming to the address of President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.