The processing of fruits and vegetables in Uzbekistan
The comparative advantage for the development of food
industry is the availability of qualitative agricultural raw
materials on taste parameters and reserves for in-depth
processing of fruits and vegetables in Uzbekistan.
Over the past two decades there is a positive dynamics
of production of fruits and vegetables in Uzbekistan. During this period, the production of fruits has
increased more than 4 times, grapes and vegetables 3
times and melons nearly twice.
The increase in production of fruits and vegetables
accompanied with an increase in their processing. For
these purposes more than 130 enterprises have been established in the country for processing of vegetables and
grapes with a total capacity of more than 500 thousand
tons of raw materials per year. Uzbekistan has mastered
to release more than 145 new kinds of products.
Nevertheless, the processing share of vegetables, grapes
and fruit does not exceed 20-25%. All these points to
the need for building modern logistics industry, attracting advanced technologies for the processing, creation,
appropriate market economy, harvesting of fruits and
vegetables, storage and cooling chambers.
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In order to better present the potential of fruits
and vegetables sector of the country for the foreign
world, the Government of Uzbekistan has organized
the first International Fruit and Vegetable Fair on
12-16 July 2016 in Tashkent.
During the fair 270 contracts for the export of Uzbek
fruits and vegetables valued at over 2 billion dollars
were signed. Participation in the first International
Fruit and Vegetable Fair of more than 300 foreign
businessmen once again illustrated the interest of
foreign manufacturers and trading companies in
cooperation with Uzbekistan.
In accordance with requests of many foreign companies and customers, the Government of Uzbekistan
decided to hold the International Fruit and Vegetable Fair on annual basis. It was decided to organize
the second Fair on 21-23 October 2016.
It is expected that not only producers and traders
of fresh, dried or processed fruits and vegetables
will participate at the event, but also international and local transport and logistics companies in
order to facilitate the customers to deliver goods
from door to door.