TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s Interim President Shavkat Mirziyoev on October 5 approved new measures aimed at accelerated development of entrepreneurship, the full protection of private ownership and qualitative improvement of the business climate in the country, Uzbekistan’s official Jahon information agency reported.
An Uzgen rice field in southern Kyrgyzstan (photo by Mavliuda Khodzhaeva, UNDP PR/Communications Specialist, Osh Area Based Developemnt Programme)
BISHKEK (TCA) — A meeting to strengthen the trade and commercial affairs on the rice value chain was recently held with the participation of a delegation from Iran and local rice producers of the Uzgen district of Kyrgyzstan’s southern Osh oblast, the UNDP in the Kyrgyz Republic reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture, Askar Myrzakhmetov, met with the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the Kingdom of Sweden, Sven-Erik Bucht, on October 4 in Astana to discuss the main directions and further prospects of cooperation between Kazakhstan and Sweden in the field of agriculture and rural development, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
ASTANA (TCA) — Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and Kazakhstan’s Baiterek Holding signed a cooperation agreement on export facilitation for Kazakh exporters in Astana on October 4, at the 13th Forum of Inter-Regional Cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia, EDB’s press office said.
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $30 million financial assistance including a $5 million grant and technical assistance from the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) to boost agriculture production and food security by improving water resource management of the Pyanj River Basin in Tajikistan, ADB’s country office in Dushanbe said.
KABUL (TCA) — A donors conference on Afghanistan held in Brussels on October 4 and 5 brought pledges of €13.6 billion for the next four years and long-term political support from the international community, including €5 billion from the European Union and its member states, the European Union External Action Service reported.
