n the first half of 2024, retail sales turnover in the Balkan velayat amounted to 4 billion 598 million manats.
According to the newspaper "Turkmenistan", growth of about 111% was achieved. At the same time, a significant part of the retail trade turnover for the reporting period is accounted for by private structures.
Since the beginning of the year, industrial products worth more than 11 billion 718 million manats have been produced and sent to domestic and foreign markets in the Balkan velayat.
About 2 billion 697 million kilowatt-hours of electricity were produced and supplied to consumers, the source notes.
Source: The Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan