Asian development bank

ADB Interventions

adB’s lending portfolio in the agriculture sector is valued at about $699.9 million (about 12.8% of adB’s total lending portfolio), including four ongoing loans totaling $320 million. adB focuses its assistance on (i) mitigating environmental, social, and gender impact; (ii) increasing energy efficiency; and (iii) promoting adaptation to climate change.¹⁶³

adB’s Horticulture Value Chain development project (HVCdp), which started in

February 2017, supports interventions that optimize farm size (specifically for horticulture), assist in crop diversification, and enhance private sector participation in horticulture value chains.¹⁶⁴ the HVCdp’s expected outcome involves increased finance for horticulture to address inequities in rural employment, extend new loans by pCBs, and bring more unemployed people into the workforce as registered farmers.

¹⁶² adB field survey in 2017 in preparation for this CGa update.
¹⁶³ adB. 2017. Uzbekistan: Country Portfolio Review Mission. Uzbekistan Resident Mission.
¹⁶⁴ decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan #365 (15 december 2015). On Measures of Optimization of Land Plots Provided for Farming Enterprises; adB. 2016. Uzbekistan: Horticulture Value Chain Development Project. UZB: L3471. eGM. (25 November 2016–30 June 2022).
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the Gap for the project is focused on (i) ensuring that horticulture-related subprojects financed with pCB sub-loans prioritize female workers (at least 20% female workers in the subproject vicinity); (ii) establishing associations of women farmers and dekhan farm in five regions (Bukhara, Fergana, Syrdarya, Surkhandarya, and tashkent); (iii) establishing women’s groups (ustoz–shogird) to promote new farms and agribusiness enterprises; (iv) supporting the broad dissemination of success stories about women’s groups and associations of women farmers through local media; (v) supporting gender awareness among main stakeholders and beneficiaries (e.g., the Council of Farmers, pCBs at the regional level, representatives of the

agribusiness entrepreneurship program) in five project regions; (vi) collecting sex-disaggregated baseline and endline information on key Gap indicators; and (vii) providing capacity development interventions and holding consultations with Gap project implementation units.

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