Baku, Azerbaijan, April 16
By Fikret Dolukhanov – Trend:
Uzbekistan is planning to produce 8.235 million tons of fruit and vegetable products in 2018, Uzbek media reported on April 16.
According to the information, the Government of Uzbekistan issued a resolution “On Measures to Improve the Efficiency of the Use of Land Plots of Farms in the Area of Vegetable Growing, Melon Crops, Horticulture and Viticulture” on April 3.
The document read that over 99,270 hectares of land were exempted from cotton and grain crops.
Most of the land fell on the Syrdarya (20,143 hectares), Surkhandarya (16,222 hectares), Namangan (11,294 hectares) and Kashkadarya (10,000 hectares) provinces’ share.
About 1.32 million hectares of land will be used for growing 8.235 million tons of fruit and vegetable products.
Uzbekistan is planning to grow 2.478 million tons of vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, carrots, cabbage, beets, garlic, bell peppers, capsicum, eggplants, greens, broccoli, etc.).
In 2018, the country is planning to produce about 808,000 tons of potatoes, 1.01 million tons of melons (melon, watermelon, pumpkin), 108,160 tons of beans (mung beans, peas, peanuts) and 465,790 tons of rice.
Uzbekistan plans to produce 49,540 tons of oilseeds (soybean, sesame) in 2018.
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