Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- A presidential resolution “On measures to implement a special resolution of the United Nations General Assembly from 18 May 2021 “On declaring the Aral Sea region a zone of environmental innovations and technologies ” was adopted.

According to the Resolution, the Academy of Young Scientists and Technopark of Youth will be created in Nukus to support young scientists, owners of start-up projects and researchers.

A laboratory with a genetic bank of plant seeds, a business accelerator and a training center at the Aral Sea International Innovation Center will be opened.

Electronic mapping and creation of a database of endangered flora and fauna will be introduced.

The resolution the introduction of face recognition technologies.

An autonomous technology for desalination of drinking salt water using renewable energy sources will be developed.

In the Republic of Karakalpakstan, on an area of 2.5 thousand hectares, a sprinkler irrigation system will be introduced for growing cotton, grain, sesame, corn and fodder crops.

Testing laboratories (food, agriculture, electrical engineering, light industry) will be modernized and logistics services for the delivery of samples to the laboratory will be established.

A comprehensive center for biochemical analysis of higher educational institutions will be established in order to determine the bonitet score of saline soils.