Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Finance in Uzbekistan: Challenges and Opportunities

Table 13: The IFIS Project financed Value Chain Development 
IFI 
Target Groups 
Timeframe 
Budget 
The International Fund for 
Agriculture Development 
Horticulture Development 
Project 
Smallholder farmers, processors, and 
service providers in the horticultural 
subsector 
2013−2017 
$30 million 
The World Bank Horticulture 
Development Project 
Small dehkan farms with up to 5 ha of 
household plots per farm, and private 
farms with land size not less than 5 ha 
per horticultural farm 
2015−2021 
$183 million 
The World Bank Horticulture 
Development Project phase 
2
Small dehkan farms with up to 5 ha of 
household plots per farm, and private 
farms with land size not less than 5 ha 
per horticultural farm 
2018−2021 $500 million
a
ADB Horticulture Value 
Chain Development Project
b
Farmers and large agriculture 
enterprises
2017−2021 
$154 million 
ADB Horticulture Value 
Chain Development Project 
phase 2 
Farmers and large agriculture 
enterprises 
2018−2021 
$198 million
c
ADB Horticulture Value 
Chain Infrastructure 
Development Project
Horticulture clusters
2019−2023 $197 million
d
World Bank /EU Livestock 
Value Chain Development
e
Project
Smallholder farmers (farming 
households and dehkan) and private 
farms and firms engaged in livestock 
production and processing. 
2017−2023 
$150 million 
IFAD Diary Value Chains 
Development Program 
Small dehkan farms and commercial 
dairy farms.
2016−2023 
$24 million 
The United States Agency 
for International 
Development Agriculture 
Value Chain Development 
Project 
Farms, dehkan farms
2007–2011 
2011−2015 
2015−2018 
$14 million 
a 
See at: https://www.uzdaily.com/articles-id-45518.htm. 
b 
See at: https://www.adb.org/projects/47305-002/main. 
c
See at: https://www.adb.org/news/adb-strengthens-support-uzbekistans-horticulture-sector-198-million-additional-
financing. 
d 
See at: https://www.adb.org/projects/documents/uzb-51041-002-rrp. 
e 
See at: http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/128331504722189404/Uzbekistan-Livestock-Sector-Development-
Project.