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Azerbaijan is the industrially-agrarian country. The basis of economy is made with extraction and oil refining. The state annually exports nearby 1 million ton oil. Set of foreign campaigns conduct search and an oil recovery and gas. In the country the neurochemistry and oil mechanical engineering with which other branches, first of all, electro technical are closely connected, mechanical engineering, ferrous metallurgy are well developed. Last years tanker transportation of Kazakhstan oil that has demanded creation of petroreception terminals has sharply increased. The significant role is played with pipeline transport. These are 1130 km of oil pipelines, 630 km of oil pipelines and 1240 km of gas mains. Oil pipelines of Baku — Supsa (Georgia) and Baku — Novorossiysk (Russia) constantly function. The agriculture also takes the important place in a national economy. The area of farmland — nearby 3,5 million hectares, from them areas under crops make nearby 1,7 million hectares (including 1,1 million hectares of the irrigated grounds), nearby 2 million hectares — years and winter pastures. A granary of Azerbaijan is the Kura-Araksinkay lowland. Greater areas borrow grain crops: wheat, rice, winter barley. Among commercial crops the cotton and tobacco are allocated. On Apsheronskay Peninsula the saffron, an olive, grapes, a fig are grown up. In Talish, in the conditions which are coming nearer damp subtropics, grow up a tea bush, noble laurels, a frijol, rice, a bamboo, grapes, citrus and vegetables. Tea cultivate and on southern slopes of the Main Caucasian ridge; in the same place — an empire of nuts and tobacco. Large branch of agriculture is the animal industries. They plant large horned livestock, sheep, and a bird. One of the oldest branches of agriculture is manufacture of silk — and now it plays the important role in a national economy. In export of Azerbaijan of 81% make products of oil refining, a cotton fibre and hire of not alloyed steel. The foreign trade partners are Russia, Turkey, and Georgia. In territory of the country magnificent monuments of architectural architecture are located: the mausoleums, mosques, defensive works in Baku, Gandzha, the Bard, Tabriz, etc. Up to now art of a ceramic decor, a miniature, art processing of metal are have reached. |
