Baku, Azerbaijan, March 23
By Fikret Dolukhanov – Trend:
Uzbekistan plans to implement a food sovereignty threshold, which will set an 80-percent minimum for yearly supply of main foodstuffs, the bill “On food security” read.
According to the Sputnik Uzbekistan news agency, the bill is published on the web-portal of the Uzbek Regulatory Impact Assessment System. The bill is developed by the Uzbek Economy Ministry and is planned to be presented for the state government in the early May 2018.
“The food security of the Uzbekistan Republic is considered to be ensured if the yearly production of the main foodstuffs in the country is no less than 80 percent of the yearly popular demand according to the physiological diet norms,” the text of the bill read.
According to the bill, the Uzbek Cabinet will determine a single state politics in the sphere of food security and will form a system for stimulating and regulating production of food products and materials.
The state control of foodstuffs market will include a registration of goods’ wholesale flow and quality certification.
Earlier, the Uzbek government stated that the republic formed considerable reserves of grain and first demand goods – meat, vegetable oil, sugar and rice. According to the official stats, the goods import in Uzbekistan decreased by 11.6 percent to $1.27 billion in 2017, what accounts for 8.9 percent of the total import.