TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, February 12. Uzbekistan plans to provide agriculture with 900,000 tons of mineral fertilizers, reducing their cost by 15 percent, Trend reports.
This was announced by president of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a meeting on the utilization of new reserves and priority tasks in agriculture for 2024.
He emphasized the importance of increasing cotton and grain yields, delivering productive seeds, and training farmers in new agro-technologies.
Shavkat Mirziyoyev set a task to import 3,000 tons of seeds from abroad and sow high-yielding varieties of cotton on 100,000 hectares within a month.
Planting of imported seeds was allowed for the first time this year. However, the Cotton Council, the Plant Quarantine and Protection Agency, and the regional administrations have not decided where the imported seeds will be planted.
Meanwhile, according to preliminary estimates, the total volume of Uzbekistan's agricultural output amounted to 404.6 trillion soums ($32.7 billion) in 2023.
The data from Uzbekistan's Statistics Agency shows that 63.1 percent of the total volume of agricultural output falls on dekhkan (small-scale family farms) and subsidiary farms, 29.8 percent on farming households, and 7.1 percent on organizations engaged in agricultural activities.
