$3.7 million will be allocated for the project. Korean technology for year-round cultivation of strawberries will be introduced in Uzbekistan, the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture reports. An agreement to this effect was signed between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Korea Agency for Education, Promotion and Information Service in the field of food, agriculture, forestry and fisheries (EPIS). The project is estimated at $3.7 million and will be implemented until December 2026 on the basis of grant funds from the South Korean government. For this, a solar-powered greenhouse for growing strawberries will be built in the Yukorichirchik district on the territory of the Tashkent Regional Center for Agro Services (AKIS). Korean specialists will build and equip a seedling greenhouse, a laboratory for growing high-quality strawberry seedlings. The project will also support the marketing promotion and branding of Uzbek strawberries in the domestic and foreign markets. Earlier, Kursiv wrote that South Korea would provide Uzbekistan with grants in the amount of $21.4 million for the introduction of advanced technologies in agriculture. To this end, training centers will be opened on the territory of AKIS in 2022-2026.
