Detailed Social and Gender Assessment
Horticulture Value Chain Development (RRP UZB 47305) Supplementary Document 17: Detailed Social and Gender Assessment 1 SOCIAL AND GENDER ASSESSMENT A. Introduction 1. Agriculture is one of the sectors for Uzbekistan’s economy contributing 25% to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), providing a third of national employment and almost half of total export earnings. Uzbekistan continues to be the major supplier of fresh and processed fruits and vegetables to the neighboring countries, especially Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation, and 80 other countries of the world. The Government emphasized on development of private farms and agro-processing businesses in Uzbekistan with the view to generate additional jobs in the rural area and ensure sustainable economic development. 2. The objectives of the proposed project are (i) increasing the horticulture sector productivity, and improving economic and financial sustainability of farm enterprises and agricultural firms; (ii) introduction seeds and seedlings new varieties, modern technology, water-efficient processes, development methods to combat pests and diseases; (iii) improving access to credit resources for creation production and export infrastructure; (iv) creation of timely collection, storage, transportation and processing horticulture products to creating trade and logistics center; and (v) increasing the value-added finished products through using modern technologies to processing and packaging. 3. The proposed project includes measures to provide loans on investment for beneficiary participating financial institutions (PFI) (hereinafter - project). This project will improve access to commercial financial services for farmers, agricultural companies, processing enterprises, owners and operators of cold storage, trading and logistics companies involved for horticulture sector. The project will allow increasing capacity industrial processing horticulture products, greenhouses construction, network storage and refrigeration.
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