A new logistics center in Shahrisabz will be commissioned in Qashqadaryo region in the near future.
It will locate at the site of the old silkworm factory, and specialize in cultivation, procurement, reception, sorting, processing fruit and vegetable products, laboratory testing for compliance with international requirements, packaging and exporting fresh, chilled and dried products.
Once the center reaches its full operation capacity, it will export more than 25,000 tons of products per year in Europe and the CIS countries, China, India, South Korea and other countries. Over a thousand people will receive permanent jobs. Farmer economies and private subsidiary farms will receive on average about 80 billion soums of income per year from selling the products grown.
Founded by the Uzbek-Latvian joint venture Olchazor Impex, the center will launch a refrigerating warehouse with a capacity of 5,350 tons, a drying line for 1,000 tons of fruit and vegetable products, a sorting line for legumes with a capacity of 2,000 tons, as well as a brokerage office, a logistics department and an export school by September 1, in accordance with the instructions of the President Shavkat Mirziyoyev during his visit to the Kashkadarya region.
“Our region has ample capacities in processing and export of fruit and vegetable products,” said Dilshod Yorov, Organization Director of the Center. “The new logistics center will also contribute to the development of this sector. We currently undertake large-scale initiatives on the repair of existing and construction of new production facilities.”
By January 1, 2018, it is planned to create an intensive garden with drip irrigation technology, quick cooling lines for 6,000 tons of products per year, processing of 2,000 tons of raisins, dried plums and apricots, and a modern laboratory on 88 hectares of the center’s territory.
Source: Information Agency Jahon
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