TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, December 18. Uzbekistan plans to increase the production of agricultural machinery to 16,000 by 2030, Trend reports.
The news followed a recent meeting between President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the representative of the country’s transport sector.
Several recommendations for the growth of Uzbekistan's automobile sector and agricultural engineering were submitted to the president during the conference.
As of today, the country's agricultural machinery industry has produced about 3,500 thousand units of equipment, which is nearly five times fewer than the 2030 target.
To reach this target, a cluster of agricultural machinery was created in the Uzbek region of Chirchik. The plant’s annual production capacity is said to amount to 15,000 units of agricultural machinery.
Throughout the talks, it was emphasized that it is necessary to expand incentives for the purchase of domestic equipment, increase the interest of clusters and farmers, as well as form a portfolio of orders, and additional measures.
The task has been set to bring the localization level of the domestic tractor to 35 percent, and suspended vehicles and trailers to an average of 60 percent.
Meanwhile, Uzbekistan’s agricultural sector remains attractive for investments, as earlier this month, FAO provided farmers in the Kamashinsky district of Uzbekistan’s Kashkadarya region with a mobile seed cleaning plant.
It is expected that the new equipment will not only increase productivity but also significantly save time and resources, as well as increase farmers' incomes. The machine is said to be suitable for processing seeds of crops such as wheat, coffee, mash, rice, corn, safflower, etc.
Support was provided within the framework of the FAO’s regional project of integrated natural resources management in drought-prone and salt-affected agricultural production landscapes in Central Asia and Türkiye.