The Indian company, Synthite Industries Ltd, plans to implement a project for the cultivation and processing of pepper in Uzbekistan. Negotiations were held between the leadership of the Indian company and the Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Investments, Shamil Burnashev, on December 19. Pepper is selected as an experimental crop for this initiative.…
At least 9 new customs terminals will be built in 2019-2021 in Uzbekistan on the border with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The decree was signed by President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Four of them will be built in 2019-2020, and five more – in the next two years. “The state bodies and other…
About 1.5 billion kWh of electricity was exported by Tajikistan to Uzbekistan in April-September 2018. First deputy chairman of Barki Tochik, Mahmadumar Asozoda, more precisely stressed that for this period 1 billion 480 million kWh of Tajik electricity was exported at a price of $0.02 per kilowatt. Representative of Barki Tochik said that since September…
China’s Gansu Hengya Cement Co. will invest in the construction of a new cement plant in Kattakurgan district of Samarkand region of Uzbekistan. The cost of a new cement plant with a capacity of over 2.4 million tons of cement per year is $420 million. The project will be implemented in two stages. At the…
Uzbekistan has significantly increased its trade turnover with the countries of the Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) in the first three quarters of 2018, Foreign Trade Minister Jamshid Khojayev declared. “It is good to see that trade with CAREC member countries is growing at an accelerated pace. In the three quarters of this year,…
The first plant in Central Asia, on the basis of which the industrial production of frozen French fries and potato flakes will be launched in November, has been built in Uzbekistan. The production capacity of the plant will be up to 20,000 tons of finished products per year. Work on the project has been going…
Uzbekistan has lifted restrictions on the export of products in eight product groups. Starting from January 1, 2019 it will be allowed to export pork, meat and poultry by-products, pork fat and poultry fat, vegetable oil, sugar, bakery products, tungsten ore and concentrates, as well as silk waste without any restrictions. On October 30 Uzbek…