BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 25. The Ministry of Agriculture of Uzbekistan and the South Korean Agency for Education, Promotion and Information Service in the field of food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries (EPIS) signed an agreement on the implementation of a new project in Uzbekistan, Trend reports via the Uzbek ministry.
The agreement provides for the launch of a new project "Introduction of modern Korean technologies for year-round cultivation of strawberries."
The $3.7 million of the project will be funded by a grant from the Korean government through official development assistance. Completion of the project is scheduled for December 2026.
To this end, a modern solar-powered greenhouse for growing strawberries will be built on the territory of the Agricultural Services Center under the Ministry of Agriculture (Yukorichirchik district, Tashkent region).
In addition, Korean specialists will build and equip a greenhouse for seedlings and an in vitro laboratory for the production of high-quality strawberry seedlings.