Agriculture Modernization Project

The objectives of the Agriculture Modernization Project for Uzbekistan are to (i) enhance productivity-supporting agricultural services and (ii) promote market-led, high-value horticulture value chains. The Project has four components. 1. Enhancing Productivity-Supporting Agricultural Services component will enhance the knowledge and human capital base to enable accelerated productive transformation of Uzbekistan agriculture to make it more productive, climate-resilient, diversified, and market-led. 1.1 Applied agricultural research and development subcomponent enhance the capacity of the national Research and Development (R and D) system to develop new technologies as well as to adapt existing, on-the-shelf technologies to local social and environmental conditions and to changing circumstances over time. 1.2 Seed and seedling production subcomponent will seek to: (i) increase the supply, in sufficient quantity and acceptable quality, of elite and super-elite seeds, seedlings, and other planting materials to private sector multipliers for commercial seed production and sales to farmers; and (ii) develop and update guidelines related to seed production, testing and registration, and certification for public and private sector seed/seedling nurseries. 1.3 Natural resource management subcomponent will increase farmers’ awareness of their soils, water situation and biohazards, and succeed in replacing blanket recommendations with test-based recommendations and Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA). 1.4 Farmer adoption support subcomponent will provide more effective knowledge and advisory support for adoption of productive and CSA technologies and practices to enable more reliable and higher quality outputs by farmers. 2. Supporting Investments in High-Value Horticulture Value Chains component will support investments in crop diversification and high-value horticulture value chains, facilitate farmers’ participation in investment opportunities created by economic...