Moyynkum
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| Moyynkum | |
|---|---|
| HistoricalGrown here in the past; no recent record either way | |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 44.93, 72.71 |
| Country | Kazakhstan |
| Provinces/States | Jambyl Region |
| Area | 49,000 km² |
| Growing history | |
| Grown | until 1989[1] |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Moyynkum is a cannabis growing region in Kazakhstan, drawn on Moyynkum District of Jambyl Region, the plain that lies north of the Chu Valley growing area. The Kazakh news agency Kazinform counts Moyynkum among the seven districts of Jambyl Region over whose lands the Shu (Chu) valley spreads. A topographic survey of 1989 recorded 1,000 hectares of cannabis in Moyynkum, which Kazinform calls the most remote district of the region; the interior ministry was still using the survey's figures in 2023.[1] The newspaper Caravan named the same seven districts in 2007.[2]
Geography
Moyynkum lies outside the Tian Shan growing region, which takes in the Chu valley to the south.
E. A. Badaev and M. D. Boltaev, who studied the wild cannabis of the Shu valley, found that it prefers light sandy soils. On sand its growing season lasts 150 to 200 days, against 120 to 150 on meadow-grey soils.[3]
The stands
The survey of 1989 found 138,000 hectares of wild cannabis in Jambyl Region. Moyynkum's 1,000 hectares were the smallest share of the six districts it names; most of the area lay in Merki (85,700 hectares) and Shu (24,400) districts, in the Chu Valley growing area.[1]
Kazinform's account of how the plant came to the valley names the Moyynkum sands. Quoting the historian Galiya Alimzhanova, it says that in the second half of the 19th century Gerasim Kolpakovsky, military governor of Semirechye Oblast, brought seed of Indian hemp and had it sown to protect villages from the advancing sands, and that the Moyynkum sands stopped.[1] Other press accounts date the story to the end of the 18th century[2] or the 17th century.[4]
Growing Areas
No growing areas documented yet.
Accessions
No accessions documented yet.
Recent news
No news items are recorded for this growing region yet.
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Скрипник, Г. (29 August 2023). "Как в Казахстане появилась индийская конопля и что из нее можно сделать". Kazinform (in русский). Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "ЧУдная долина". Caravan.kz (in русский). 30 May 2007. Retrieved 12 October 2026.
- ↑ Badaev, E.A.; Boltaev, M.D. (2013). "Каннабиноидная сорная конопля Шуской долины". Защита и карантин растений (in русский) (3): 32–34.
- ↑ "Cannabis valley in Kazakhstan to be destroyed with herbicides". Tengrinews. 9 October 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2026.