A study of uzbekistan fruits and vegetables

4.4 Supply chain alignment with international requirements

The supply chain needs to be aligned with the requirements of importing countries which require control and monitoring of quality standards of the raw materials and processed products. The specific action steps to facilitate this are:
- Enable direct farmer-importer linkages by amendment of APMC Act
- Set-up independent world class food testing and inspection infrastructure, particularly in clusters with significant presence of exporters.
-Devise an alternate system of processing grade products specifications based on internationally accepted norms, delinked from fair average quality of table grade products
- Encourage investment in infrastructure to improve product quality, through part funding these investments, such as financing of bulk coolers.
- Support private sector initiatives for investing in specialized transport infrastructure such as refrigerated vans through specific financing schemes for this purpose.

CONCLUSION

To sum up, this thesis covers lots of info which is important to develop an institutional mechanism, cooperation and integration of agricultural enterprises in relation with fruits and vegetables. Cooperative unions, farmers, dekhkan farmers and agricultural firms have more opportunities together than each farm individually to acquire advanced technological equipment, effectively implement the sale of products and its export, conduct an effective research of both internal and external markets, analyze and forecast customer demand overseas, identify new directions of cooperation. At the same time, it is necessary to provide the accumulation of funds for support and development of agricultural production basis. They should be directed at the development of agricultural science and training, support for elite seed production, improvement of soil fertility, subsidies for the production and sales of separate kinds of fruits and vegetables, etc. Funding for these areas is advisable to carry out by attracting international grants or reserve funds formed in accordance with intergovernmental agreements.