In Uzbekistan, at least 2,500 soums will now be paid for each kilogram of hand-picked raw cotton this season. This was reported by the Ministry of Agriculture.
A meeting was held at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan between B. Maksudov, head of the Department for the Introduction of Aerospace Technologies, and Mohammed Nada, senior expert on urban planning at the World Bank.
A temporary ban on sugar exports from Russia cannot affect retail prices in Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Agriculture of the republic said.
Minister of Agriculture of Uzbekistan Ibrahim Abdurakhmanov held a meeting with Director General of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Managing Director of the Alliance of National Science Organization (ANSO) Jinghua Cao and Professor of the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academician George Fu Gao.
The Ministry of Agriculture held a meeting with a delegation of the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Turkey and the Council for Foreign Economic Relations, consisting of representatives of ten leading private companies in the field of technical consulting.
The new peanut variety "Leader" was developed by Professor of the Faculty of Fruit and Vegetable Growing and Viticulture of Tashkent State Agrarian University Mahfurat Amanova.
The event was organized within the framework of the second meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture of the Organization of Turkic States (OTG). The first meeting in a similar format was held in Uzbekistan.
This year the Melon Festival will be held on August 12-13 on the territory of the State Museum-Reserve "Ichan-qal'a" in the city of Khiva, Khorezm region.
Minister of Agriculture Aziz Voitov met with representatives of the Italian company "Enis.p.A." headed by Director of Public Relations Lapo Pistelli.
In the first half of 2023, Uzbekistan exported 6.5 thousand tons of watermelons to 14 countries. In particular, about a thousand tons were delivered to the states of the European Union.