Uzbekistan produces agriculture, forestry and fishery products for 5.52 trillion soums in 1Q

Production of plants, animal husbandry, hunting and provision of services in these areas made up 5.44 trillion soums (+1.8%), in forestry – 27.9 billion soums (+0.9%), in fishery – 50 billion soums (+5.1%).

The highest growth rates were observed in Bukhara (+3.8%), Navoi (+3.2%), Surkhandarya (+2.4%) and Ferghana (+2.2%) regions. On the contrary, slow rates were observed in Jizzakh (+0.7%), Kashkadarya (+0.8%), Syrdarya and Khorezm (+0.9%) regions.

Tashkent region accounted 16.9% in total volume of produced agriculture, forestry and fishery products of Uzbekistan in the reporting period. Surkhandarya and Samarkand regions followed Tashkent region with the indicators of 13.6% and 10.3%, respectively.

The lowest share was registered in Karakalpakstan (2.1%), Syrdarya (3.3%) and Namangan (4.4%) regions.

Growth in agricultural output in January-March 2018 compared with the corresponding period 2017 made up 1.8%, including crop production – 1.9% and livestock –1.8%.

About 87.5% of total volume of agricultural production fell to share of dehkan (personal subsidiary) farms, 6.3% - on farms, 6.2% - on organizations engaged in agricultural activities.

The volume of production of plant growing in January-March 2018 amounted to 1.29 trillion soums or grew by 1.9% year-on-year. The share of crop production in the total volume of agricultural production was 24%.

In January-March 2018, all categories of farms collected vegetables in volume – 56,000 tonnes (+2.2%).

The volume of production of livestock products in January-March 2018 reached 4.078 trillion soums, or grew by 1.8% year-on-year.

In the total production of agricultural products, the share of livestock products made up 76%. In January-March 2018, all categories of farms produced 440,900 tonnes of meat in live weight (+1.5% year-on-year), 1.68 million tonnes of milk (+2.4%), 1.23 billion eggs (+2.5%), 407,400 pieces of Karakul pelts (-0.9%).

Dehkan farms produced 93.6% of meat in January-March, 95.4% of milk, 50.3% of eggs, 86.4% of wool, 91.7% of Karakul pelts.

As of 1 April 2018, total number of cattle reached 12.24 million heads, including cows – 4.3 million heads, sheep and goats – 20.43 million heads, birds – 71.12 million heads. In comparison with the corresponding period of 2017, the number of cattle increased by 281,600 heads (+2.4%) in all categories of farms, including cows - by 34,900 heads (+0.8%), sheep and goats - by 504,800 heads (+2.5%), birds - by 4.27 million heads (+6.4%).

Farms account 4.9% of cattle, dehhan farms – 93.7% and agriculture enterprises – 1.4%. Farms own 10.3% of sheep and goats, dehkan farms – 84.3%, agriculture enterprises – 5.4%.

At the same time, farms had 12.5% of total number of birds, dehkan farms -63.4% and agriculture enterprises – 24.1%.