Agricultural value chains activity in uzbekistan
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Informant’s name: Matlyuba Work location: Kogon district, Bukhara province Interview location: National Bank, Bukhara city Matlyuba- locomotive of a family business. General information: The enterprise was opened in 1992 and traded grapes from Surkhandarya to the Russian Federation. Location: Kogon district, Bukhara province. 21 | AVC UZBEKISTAN FY2019 QUARTER 3 REPORT USAID.GOV Matlyuba, her husband and two of her sons have finished their high education in Moscow. In 1987 she started working in a women’s brigade in one of the kolkhozes in Samarkand. Since two years she is on a pension. However she continues to work as an economist and manages networks. There are 5 people working in the family business. The business has multi-dimensional side and includes also cattle and poultry farming along with agricultural business which captures almost all the stages till the final sales to the buyers. The youngest son of Matlyuba created a website for the company which is now working on a trial version (www. bukharaagro.uz). Currently Matlyuba and her family exports to the Russian Federation (Petersburg and Hermes Food) Belorussia and Latvia. She has constant contracts from Magnit supermarket chain in Russia, however very often she had obstacles with storing her produce and also arranging on-time delivery because of the long waiting times passing border. She wants and has the potential and customers for bigger exports but her company is not allowed to export in large quantities as it has to receive special approval from the Ministry of foreign economic relations and investment. The imports include sunflower oil, flour from Kazakhstan, feed, cereals They have a small plant ABM 15 and a mill to export cereals. From 2015 they started producing oil from the grape seeds (cold press, duration 6 month) which they started to sell in the local market and also to Tashkent. They are trying to get all certificates for exporting to Russia. Currently there are 8 such plants in Tashkent, 1 in Samarkand and only one belonging to Matlyuba’s family business in Bukhara. The business has a linkage to preparing agents (zagotoviteli) which also organize women packers and also send pictures and status of the goods to Matlyuba and she send it out to the buyers in Russia. The Matlyuba has a passion for developing the family business and expanding it and to get profit from every possibility. In 2014 they started to construct a building for the cold storage and plan to buy equipment form an Italian company and the bank offers a credit for 12%. Till this year they have been reselling the available fruits from storages in Ferghana. She wants a storage that would create an ozone environment, a drying equipment and a size calibrating conveyer. Last year they were allocated 70 ha of land from which they plan to plant 10 ha –grapes, 10 ha = plums, 10 ha of vegetables and the rest to be used for cattle (55) and poultry (15 000) breeding. In 2015 the local government asked them give out address credits on 9% interest with total amount 89 mln. given out in seedlings (1 year), potatoes (6 month), poultry (1 year) cattle (3 year). She participates in most of the farmers’ meetings organized by the local authorities where majority of participants are men. She informed that she is not afraid to voice her opinions but very often she is not given a turn to speak. Matlyuba informed that the reason for low number of women farmers lies in family cultural context. There are many families where men do not allow women to manage farms or business as they do not like to earn less or be less decision-making compared to their wives. At the same time “almost 90% of women are in agriculture” says Matlyuba. But there are many opportunities for women and no constraints to loans. The issues might be that women themselves do not have a great wish to work that hard “they are sleeping”. As this production and exporting business involves lots of effort. Matlyuba told that she has great understanding in her family and her husband and sons support her ideas as all the family has a common objective of developing further. 80-90% of information is received form internet. Rural women entrepreneurs are under-acknowledged, although their numbers are growing. Compared to men, women tend to face extra challenges in up-scaling or upgrading their business. Interventions to support female entrepreneurs could bring economic prosperity and improve the economic and societal ` USAID.GOV AVC UZBEKISTAN FY2019 QUARTER 3 REPORT | 22 position of women and their activities in the chain. Women like Matlyuba often already have creative ideas and only need assistance (trainings or information on advanced technologies) to make their businesses stronger and to transform creative and innovative ideas into profits. Download 1.41 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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