The Turkmen camels are the most ancient and beautiful animals of the Garagum Desert, one of the largest deserts of the world. The camel's milk and agaran, the meal made of it have very effective medicinal properties which were also noted by Avicenna, a well-known Eastern physician and philosopher (980 - 1073 A.D.) The camel’smilk and agaran are one of the most ancientmeals of theTurkmen people.To say it in the medical language they are sourly milky drinks.One more secret of the camel’s milk is that it is ready product,or meal which is being cooked under the influence of the hot climate of the Garagum desert.This pure natural product souring becomes active and destroys microbesatonce.To say in scientific language the camel’s milk does notneed thermal processing,at the same time it is ecologically 100 percent pure product, which has antibiotic properties.
The unique medicinal properties of the camel’s milk lie in the fact that it has more mineral – vitamin complex in its structure than other drinks. It has tens of mineral vitamins.It is not by chancethat our ancestors used agaran regularly in order to treat the weak patients who lost their strength and had stomach disease.Camel’s milk has low, small calorie.That’s why it is very effective tokeep the weight of the body on the same level when the person puts on or loses his weight.The presence of easily assimilated lactose in the content of the camel’s milk which gives incentive to feeding the nervous system is one more peculiarity of the camel’s milk. When the patient has anaemia, tuberculosis, oncology diseases or weak organism he is advised to drink camel’s milk oreat agaran. These meals are also medicinal remedies for the patients suffering from intestinal stomach diseases.It goes without saying that camel’s milk or agaran are best pleasant drinks forquenching thirst.
In recent yearsTurkmen businessmen began paying much attention to camel breeding and production of camel’s milk and agaran. If you start from Ashgabat by quick transport you will reach rapidly the Gokdepe district. Then going across the bridge over the Garagum canal crossing the «Akhal» village you will arrive at the place «Kesekioy» located in the Garagum desert. There isthe address on the plastic package produced at the shop for packing camel’s milk of the industrial enterprise constructed here among the sandhills:«Producer Kanayev P. The address: In 3km.distance in the north within the Akhal farm of the Gokdepe district of the Akhal province»
This private enterprise began its work in 2017. The choice of this area for camel breeding, for their pasture, for construction of the industrial enterprise is very advantageous from the point of view natural conditions. There are wide pastures for camels and abundance of plants used for forage for camels grows there. The work on collecting camels for producing camel’s milk andagaran began here in 2015.The camels were collected not only from the Akhal region but they were brought from Jebel, Oglanly, Akyayla wells of the Balkan province, from the Sakarchagedistrict of the Mary province where the camel breeding existed since the ancient times.Thus the number of camels reached 200 here.In the past years sometimes somedays in the summer season camels gave one and a half or two tons of milk a day.
The sowing land given to the enterprise by the statelooks green. At present the barleys own on 9 hectare are a being harvested.The first harvest of the clover in the10 hectare land has finished.The 10 hectare land was sown with jugara or white durra.
«Thus the 140 hectare area given by the state for developing business was cultivated step by step and according to technological rules was prepared for sowing. Besides camels we have about 100 cows. Our customers buy their milk from our farm.At present we build dairy maid for our cows.In the near future we intend to produce yoghurt, sour clotted milk, cheese, processing milk. We are also constructing structures for making and keeping silage,» said Jumadurdy Juma, the Business Manager of the enterprise. It is very interesting to see milking at noon.About 10 milkmaids after washing their hands and pails with hot water began milking. After that the milk is taken to laboratory examination and then it is packed.Camel’s milk and agaran are packed intoplastic packages which are made there.The shop producing the plastic packages of different volumes was one of the first structures constructed there.The camel’s milk and agaran packed here metal the sanitary requirements. They are sent at once to shopping centres. Mainly, they are sent to the «Garashsyzlygyng 15 yyllygy» shopping centre and «Atamarket» shop located in thewestern part of Artogrul Gazy Mosque in the capital.They have enough customers. The milk and agaran of the camels grazing in the pastures of the Garagum desert are balm for health.
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