Additional tasks identified to increase employment and well-being of the population
08/06/2021 20:10
Additional tasks identified to increase employment and well-being of the population
08/06/2021 20:10
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Under the chairmanship of President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, a video conference was held on 8 June on ensuring employment of the population through the development of agriculture and entrepreneurship, as well as increasing food production.
This year, the employment program provides for the creation of 457 thousand permanent jobs. Agriculture, entrepreneurship, trade and services are identified as the main sources of achieving this goal.
So, by organizing trade and services along the main roads, creating special streets in cities and regional centers, 150 thousand jobs can be created.
Another big reserve for job creation is the efficient use of land. In January of this year, an experiment was launched to allocate sowing land to young people, its results were recognized as satisfactory. On the basis of the experiment that began in Surkhandarya, a procedure will be introduced to provide the unemployed population with agricultural land for 10 years for dekhkan farming.
For this, starting this year, almost 100 thousand hectares of land freed by reducing the sown area for wheat will be provided to the unemployed to create dekhkan farms. After the cotton harvest, an additional 100,000 hectares of land will be freed up for these purposes.
“Providing land to young people was an experiment. Now we are moving to a large system. We transfer the land to the real owners - the people. Khokims, sector leaders need to determine which plots for cotton and grain will be cut and give them to the unemployed. And observe justice at the same time. This will provide jobs and earnings for hundreds of thousands of people,” said Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
Responsible persons were instructed to supply seeds and seedlings to the population who received land, to finance the purchase of harvested products.
It is no secret that the issue of land allocation was the most opaque and most prone to corruption process. Therefore, today, on 8v, the President signed a resolution on measures to ensure equality and transparency in land relations, reliable protection of land rights and turning it into a market asset.
From now on, the practice of direct and gratuitous provision of land for entrepreneurship will be completely discontinued, and land will be sold as property or leased out on the same and transparent terms for everyone - through an electronic auction. All powers of khokims of districts and cities related to the allocation and return of land have been abolished.
At the meeting, the head of state touched upon the significance of this document and gave instructions on organizing its implementation in the field, ensuring justice and legality.
Another issue related to the well-being of the population is the stability of food prices.
According to the data, since the beginning of the year, prices for beef on the domestic market increased by 3.2 percent, mutton - by 4 percent, poultry meat - by 3.3 percent.
- Lower prices do not mean forcing entrepreneurs and livestock breeders to sell their products at low prices. First of all, it is necessary to increase the supply on the market, the President said.
Particular attention should be paid to areas that give high results in a short time, indicated to the responsible persons. One of these industries is poultry farming.
For example, to gain 1 kilogram of weight, poultry needs 1.7 kilograms of feed, and cattle needs 8 kilograms of feed. However, our country produces few poultry meat and eggs per capita.
In this regard, the meeting identified new mechanisms to support poultry farming. Thus, the size of subsidies for the production of eggs will be increased 3 times, for the procurement of poultry meat - 2 times. Producers of feed and poultry products will be reimbursed part of the loans received to replenish working capital and implement poultry projects, in the part that exceeds the base rate of the Central Bank.
Part of the costs of projects for the creation of modern complexes for cutting poultry will be compensated. Tax rates on profits, property, land and water for poultry enterprises will be reduced by 50 percent.
The state through "Microcreditbank" will allocate US$50 million for the implementation of relevant projects.
Officials have been instructed to implement these benefits and help businesses reach full capacity.
The importance of organizing mini-incubators and freezers in makhallas on the basis of private partnerships and expanding poultry farming in households was noted.
The task was set to reorganize the activities of the research institute of animal husbandry and poultry farming, to create bird breeds corresponding to local conditions. 10 billion soums will be allocated to provide the institute with the necessary equipment and the delivery of breeds for breeding.
Measures were considered to increase meat production by launching more than a thousand projects in the livestock sector and 317 projects in the field of fish farming.
This year, taking into account the expected shortage of water, 200 billion soums will be allocated for drilling wells. At the expense of these funds, it is possible to organize the cultivation of forage crops on at least 10 thousand hectares of land.
At the meeting, the khokims provided information on what measures will be taken to reduce unemployment, increase food production and ensure price stability.
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