Agricultural Situation and Investment Condition of Uzbekistan
2009
Park, P.S., National Institute of Crop Science, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea | Park, S.Y., National Institute of Crop Science, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea | Yu, H.S., National Institute of Crop Science, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea | Lee, S.D., International Agricultural RnD Team, RDA, Suwon, Republic of Korea
The food problem is one of the big issues causing international economic crisis. The world's grain consumption has surpassed the supply, it is expected that the price of grains will continue to increase. Korea has achieved self-sufficiency of rice, but that of other grains is very low such as wheat, corn and soybean. Korea is one of the world's largest grain importers, Consequently, Korea should exert great effort to prepare for food security. This paper aims to investigate the agricultural situation of Uzbekistan in Central Asia to secure food production base. Uzbekistan has relatively vast land resource and development potential. Furthermore, it is a main exporter of wheat and cotton. Uzbekistan is interested in agricultural development, but it needs high technology and capital investment from Korea. The Korean government should closely observe the world's supply and demand situation, plan policies to diversify import sources, to maintain and expand the domestic production base, and to secure overseas grain production base. Korea needs to develop the overseas food production base such as Uzbekistan which has much potential, and increase investment for research to implement the self-sufficiency. The areas with possibility for investment in Uzbekistan's agriculture are as follows ; agricultural product processing, green house facilities, irrigation system and water-saving technique, advanced agricultural technology co-operation, and etc. Investment on research and development for the foreign agriculture should proceed vigorously.
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