Kyrgyzstan: drought reduces wheat harvest

Drought caused reduction of grain harvest by 38% in the republic, but a grain shortage should not be expected, the Minister of Agriculture of Kyrgyzstan Askarbek Dzhanybekov announced at a briefing in Bishkek. “Harvest of food grains, including seeds and feed wheat, barley dropped by 38%. But this will not influence the physical volume of…

Uzbekistan: industrial production up in January-October 2021

In January-October, the enterprises in Uzbekistan manufactured 356.1 trillion soums worth of industrial products, the republic’s State Statistics Committee reported. The volume of industrial production increased by 9.5% compared to the same period last year. The manufacturing industry accounted for 82.9% of all industrial production, mining industry and open-pit mining – 9.6%, electricity, gas, steam…