The World Bank
Agriculture Modernization Project (P158372)
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Component 3: Facilitating Trade and Marketing (US$77.5 million). The objective of this component is to improve
access of Uzbekistan’s horticulture products on both internal and external markets through improvements in: (i) agro-
logistics; (ii) plant protection and quarantine measures; and (iii) market information collection and dissemination.
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Sub-component 3.1 Establishing agro-logistical centers in selected regions (US$65.0 million). The objective of
this sub-component is to create markets by improving agro-logistics infrastructure. The project will
finance construction
of agro-logistical centers (ALCs)
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, tentatively in Bukhara and Khorezm regions, which will be part of an integrated ALC
network in the regions and in Tashkent. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) plans to finance six of such ALCs country
wide, and financing for the first three in Tashkent, Andijan and Samarkand has been already secured
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. The regional ALCs
will be connected to a central hub in Tashkent to support the horticulture sector export,
promote CSA through crop
diversification, improve food distribution and food safety, reduce food loss and waste, and facilitate market access for
farm cooperatives and smallholders supported under Component 2. Each ALC could have two functions: (i) a wholesale
market, targeting mainly the supply of the cities; and (ii) a logistics area
dedicated to cross-docking, storage
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transformation, packing, and on-line platforms for exports. Streamlined processing platforms, including improved and
new storage facilities, reduce the risk of
losses due to climate, and increase resilience.
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Investments in ALCs will be guided by the forward-looking Agro-Logistics Infrastructure Strategy and Plan, which
is currently under preparation by the working group under MOA,
with the support of ADB, Food and Agriculture
Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, WB, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The
ALC Strategy and Plan will consider
commercial opportunities, volumes and directions of trade,
demand and supply
outlooks, and private sector investments in cold storage and logistics. The project will use the ALC Strategy and Plan and
derive lessons from the first set of ADB investments to invest in regional ALCs. Options used globally for the management
and operation of ALCs and considered in Uzbekistan include private operator concession
and semi-public-company-
concession arrangements.
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