TASHKENT (TCA) — The 76th Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee and the 13th International Uzbek Cotton and Textile Fair are being held in Tashkent, the Jahon information agency reports.
At the meeting of this committee held last year, a decision was made to conduct a conference in Tashkent on the subject “Cotton in the era of globalization and technological progress”, which confirmed the strengthening of the international status of Uzbekistan as one of the major centers of the cotton and textile industries.
About 1500 specialists from more than 50 countries are taking part in the work of the meeting and the fair in Tashkent.
The International Cotton Advisory Committee was established in 1939. It currently includes organizations such as the Standing Committee, the Task Force on Commercial Standardization of Instrument Testing of Cotton, the Expert Panel on Social, Environmental and Economic Performance of Cotton Production, the Expert Panel on Biotechnology, the International Forum on Development of Cotton Industry, the Expert Panel on Ginning Methods, as well as a number of key structures aimed at development of the sphere.
International Uzbek Cotton Fair is also included in the list of important events of the International Cotton Advisory Committee, which is one of the prestigious forums that determine the policy of the cotton market on a global scale.
The volume of cotton fiber processing in Uzbekistan is increasing. If only 3-5 percent of fiber was processed in the country in the early 1990s, now this figure has exceeded 50 percent. The commissioning of new capacities even in the most remote regions and modernization of existing enterprises are contributing to the expansion of the scale of work in this direction. The goal is to achieve a 100% processing of domestic cotton fiber inside the country by 2020, and to export high-quality finished products with added value.
Within the framework of the fair, it is planned to hold master classes with participation of designers from South Korea and Uzbekistan and training seminars on issues of expansion of textile exports to the EU countries.
