BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov 16
By Natavan Rzayeva - Trend:
A new decree in Uzbekistan will give more options to farmers and clusters to sell grain products, Trend reports via Uzbek National News Agency.
In particular, a new presidential decree “On the introduction of market principles ensuring free competition in the production and sale of grain" will allow to sell grain through various auction systems and through direct sales from 2022 through 2024.
The farmers would be able to sell on average over 2.5 tons of wheat from each hectare sown with grain within the mentioned period.
According to the decree, the following measures are being introduced:
- independent placement by business entities of wheat varieties recommended for sowing in Uzbekistan from 2022 based on land and water conditions, in order to guarantee the provision of the domestic market with grain;
- allocation of concessional loans to grain farms, elite seed farms and grain clusters as part of the Seed Development Center to cover the cost of grain production from the resources of the State Support Fund for Agriculture.
In addition, every year the Ministry of Agriculture will publish the expected indicative price of grain for next year's harvest until August 1.
Also, government bodies, including local municipalities and law enforcement agencies, are strictly prohibited from:
- interfering into production of grain crops and the provision of material and technical resources, as well as in the direction of the use of allocated concessional loans;
- interference in the process of selling grain, including the conclusion of contracts, the attachment of farms to separate enterprises engaged in the procurement and processing of grain, in internal transportation between the regions of the country.