BAKU, Azerbaijan, Feb. 16
By Klavdiya Romakayeva - Trend:
The number of Uzbek mung bean manufacturers that gained access to the Chinese market in February 2021 increased to 54, Trend reports referring to the press service of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in China.
According to the information, China imports mung beans from other countries due to the lack of its own crop. The main suppliers are Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Indonesia, Australia, and Thailand.
It was noted that the volume of the annual consumption of mung bean in China grows from year to year - if in 2018 this product amounted to 89,000 tons, then in 2019 and 2020 it amounted to 113,000 tons and 205,000 tons, respectively.
During the visit of President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to China in 2018, a number of bilateral agreements in the trade and economic sphere were signed. Among them was the protocol on phytosanitary requirements for the export of mung bean from Uzbekistan to China, which was signed by the State Inspectorate for Plant Quarantine of Uzbekistan and the main customs administration of China with the active assistance of the Uzbek diplomatic mission in Beijing in 2018.
The signing of this protocol opened up new opportunities for Uzbek entrepreneurs to further increase the export of green mung beans to China. Meanwhile, for Uzbek farmers, this has become a new source of income from the supply of their products to the Chinese market.
At the same time, products exported from Uzbekistan to China must meet sanitary and hygienic standards, phytosanitary rules, and the requirements provided for in the protocol. In this regard, over the past three years, the Uzbek Embassy in Beijing has been actively assisting Uzgoskarantin (Uzbekistan's Plant Quarantine Inspectorate) in the formation and approval of the list of suppliers in the relevant departments of China.
Also, Uzbek producers of mung bean imported the necessary calibration and purification equipment, installed modern laboratories. Thus, the technological modernization of the production base of entrepreneurs in Uzbekistan was carried out, which made it possible to expand the list of exporters of green mung bean to China.
As a result of joint efforts taken in the past two years, the volume of Uzbek mung bean exports to China has actually tripled from 28,000 tons in 2019 to 75,000 tons in 2020.
At the same time, the share of Uzbekistan in total imports of this commodity product to China increased from 26 percent to 36.5 percent.
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