OREANDA-NEWS. October 29, 2010. Decree of President Islam Karimov “On additional measures to increase food production and saturation of the domestic market” from 26 January, 2009 is essential in ensuring the program of anti-crisis measures.

Financial institutions of Jizzah region provide financial support to local producers of food products on the basis of this document. The regional commercial banks have allocated 11 billion 605 million soums of loans for this purpose within the 9 months of this year. Particular attention is paid to the development of a livestock and poultry.

“We built poultry complex taking 53 million soums of soft loan from Aloka-bank,” said the head of the Jizzah private enterprise “Okkurgonlik” Mamatkul Rakhmatov. “We bought 4,000 broiler chickens, the necessary equipment and feed. In the future we plan to increase the number of birds by 6,000 and produce up to 8 tons of high quality dietary products a year.”

Today, entrepreneurs are increasingly spreading in the region with the help of bank loans and supplying the population with meat and eggs by affordable prices. Thus, 26 poultry farms were formed in the past period of this year. Their number should increase by another 10 until the end of the year.

Along with traditional forms of agriculture such high-yield sector as beekeeping, fish farming, greenhouses, orchards and melon are also developing. Farmers and entrepreneurs are provided with bank loans. Only this year, financial institutions of the region allocated USD 250 million soums of credits for development of beekeeping, fish – 163 million sums, construction of greenhouses – 642 million soums, gardening – 207 million soums for the purchase of vegetable seeds, potatoes, melons and fruits – 1 billion 680 million soums.

In particular, honey production has increased by 30%, growing vegetables – by 13,4%, vegetables – by 9.5%, melons – by 34.2%, potatoes – by 9.2% over the past 9 months of 2010 compared to the same period of last year.

Processing industry is also increasingly growing and constructing new enterprises with increasing the volumes of production. And it serves to create more jobs, higher incomes and living standards.