management of the land, water and other natural
resources resulted in improvement of the melioration, creation of the high-yielding areas of intensive
gardening and drip irrigation systems. As a result,
today the country is producing over 18 million tons
of fruits and vegetables, in comparison with about
4 million tons in 1991.
Thanks to structural changes in the agricultural
sector, current share of cotton in the total volume
of gross agricultural output does not exceed 9%,
while the share of grains is about 9%, fruits,
vegetables and grapes - 30%, potatoes - 11%, and
livestock products exceed 40%.
In order to achieve qualitative structural changes in
agriculture and development of the economy as a
whole, the government of Uzbekistan focuses on gradual reduction by 2020 production and state purchases
of cotton from 3.35 million tons to 3 million tons.
It is worth to claim that by reducing the production of
raw cotton by 350 thousand tons about 170.5 thousand
hectares of irrigated land are going to be freed.
As a result of optimization of crop areas and introduction of modern agricultural technologies by 2020
Uzbekistan is to bring production of cereal crops up
to 8.5 million tons with an increase of 16.4%, increase
of potato production by 35%, other vegetables - 30%,
fruit and grapes - 21.5%, meat - by 26.2%, milk - by
47.3%, eggs - by 74.5%, fish - by 2.5 times.
As mentioned in the World Bank’s report, Uzbekistan is currently among the top ten countries in the
world, which in the last year achieved the best
results in improving the business environment.
Based on deep analysis of trends in global economy and realistic assessment of our resources
and capabilities, Uzbekistan had set a target by
2030 to increase GDP of the country by at least
2-fold. Due to drastic structural reforms the
country intends to achieve accelerated growth
of industry by bringing its share in GDP to 40%
against 33.5% in 2015, while share of agriculture
to decrease from 16.6% to 10.8%, to reduce energy
intensity of GDP by 2 times by introducing energy
saving technologies nationwide.
The reality of the task can be judged based on
the following calculations. In order to achieve
the growth of GDP 2 times for 2016-2030, it
would be enough to provide average annual
growth rate of 4.8%, while over the past 11 years
the average GDP growth rate in the country
amounted to at least 8%.
Uzbekistan’s achievements and milestones are
widely recognized by the world community. Last
October the World Bank published the rating of
«Doing Business», with the fact that Uzbekistan in
just one year has risen to 16 positions and ranked
as 87th. It should be particularly underlined that
according to criteria such as «Starting a Business»,
Uzbekistan is ranked as 42nd, «enforcing of
contracts» - 32nd and «Resolving Insolvency» 75th. According to the indicator «Getting Credit»,
Uzbekistan for the last three years rose from
154th to 42nd rank improving only over the last
year its ranking by 63 positions.
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