The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Chu Valley

part of the valley of the Chu River. The Chu Valley, situated in the river’s middle course, extends from the Boam Gorge in the southeast to the eastern edge of the Muiunkum Desert in the northwest, in the Kirghiz SSR and the Kazakh SSR. It measures approximately 200 km in length and ranges in width from 15 km in the southeast to 100 km in the northwest. Elevations range from 500 to 1,200 m. The climate is distinctly continental, with a frost-free period of as much as 180 days. Precipitation totals 250–400 mm annually, mainly in the spring. Almost all of the Chu Valley’s territory is cultivated and irrigated. The main crops are sugar beets, grains, and fruit, including grapes. The city of Frunze is located in the south.

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This is the longest stand-off between the two armies since 1987 when they faced a similar situation at Somordong Chu Valley in Arunachal Pradesh.

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The latter is the interregional special division that controls trafficking of wild-growing marijuana in the Chu Valley (Zhambyl oblast) and in Almaty oblast.

The largest source of marijuana production in Kazakhstan is in the Chu Valley in the Zhambyl oblast, where wild marijuana with high THC levels grows on an estimated 144,000 hectares.

Country reports: Kazakhstan

The largest source of marijuana is the Chu Valley in the Zhambyl Oblast, in which wild marijuana with a high THC content grows on an estimated 138,000 hectares.

The Ontustik (South) Special Division focuses on organized crime in South Kazakhstan, and Delta-Dolina specifically focuses on illicit activities in the Chu Valley. The work of these divisions is believed to have contributed to the recent 17 percent increase in marijuana and hashish prices.

Kazakhstan

In addition to drug transit through the territory of Kazakhstan, marijuana cultivation in the Chu Valley represents an indigenous source of drugs.

Kazakhstan

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