In comments on materials on new export records in Uzbekistan, one finds that export development makes vegetables and fruits inaccessible to local consumers.
This indignation can be understood, because only very recently Uzbekistan began to introduce the foundations of a market economy after a long life in the realities of a command economy and manual control of all processes in the country. The export of fruits and vegetables was maximally complicated and manually regulated to make prices affordable for the local population, and the production of fruits and vegetables remained the lot of households. On a commercial scale, production began to develop only when entire areas began to be transferred from the cultivation of cotton and grain to the cultivation of fruits and vegetables in an administrative-command order, writes EastFruit.
It is only natural that people will pay attention to a 30-50% price increase much more willingly than to admit that their income has doubled. And not all of these two factors manage to be linked together.
“The development of the export of fruits and vegetables allows residents of the countryside to raise living standards and expand production, creating a large number of well-paid jobs. It also ensures the stability of the national currency due to the influx of export earnings. It is access to export markets that gives Uzbekistan the opportunity to introduce more modern and effective technologies for growing, processing and packaging fruits, which reduce costs, improve the quality and safety of products. Export creates opportunities for expanding the assortment and growing season, selling various types of products, as well as for more sustainable production. Thus, the consumer can be sure that the assortment of fruits and vegetables will always be the widest, and over time, these products will become more accessible as more modern approaches are introduced, ”says Andrei Yarmak, an economist at the investment department of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO).
Source: pv.uz