E. A. Abdalina, R. J. Hoshimova

AGROINDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Agroindustrial complex climatic conditions make it possible to grow such warmthloving crops as cotton, grapes, pome-granates, figs, peaches and watermelon goods, and in mountain regions and foothills-cereals and potatoes.

The structure of agroindustrial complex is made up by:
— branches producing means of production for agriculture and industry processing agricultural raw materials. The producers of means of production for agriculture in Uzbekistan manufacture mineral fertilizers, tractors, cotton-picking machines and a number of other types of labour mechanization means in the country;
— branches of agriculture (cotton-growing, grain and vegetable growing and so on);
— branches making storage, keeping or preservation and processing of agricultural products (food industry, cotton-cleaning industry, silk-spinnig industry and so on);
— branches carrying out production service of agriculture (agricultural machinery repairing, attending to irrigation systems and so on);
All these branches produce more than half of the total national product of agriculture.
The Republic is the main producer and supplier of a very important strategic product having great export potential-cotton and its products.
The Republic occupies 3 place in the world in producing cotton fibre (after China and USA).
Being the second large exporter of cotton in the world Uzbekistan exports more than 1 mln tons of cotton per year.
Today one of the main tasks to be solved in the process of economic reforms is the creation of powerful light industry producing competitive in the world market fabrics, clothes and other goods of local silk, cotton and karakul. It will make it possible to go over from exporting, agricultural raw materials to primary exporting of final products. With the aim of solving the given tasks the construction, mainly with the participation of foreign films, new enterprises of light industry, technical reequipment of the acting enterprises is carried out. Today Uzbekistan imports 3G’4 of grain and other food products.