Project Summary
Value Chain Analysis of the Uzbekistan Cherry Industry
PREFACE
The Korean KAPEX Implementation team organized by the Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI) visited Uzbekistan from in February, 2017 for the purpose of working out the details of a joint research (JR) on “A Value Chain Analysis of the Uzbekistan Cherry Industry”. During its visit, KREI had a series of discussions with the Scientific-Research Institute of Horticulture, Viticulture and Winemaking named after academician M.Mirzaev (SRI) with respect to the desirable measures to be taken by both Parties for the successful implementation of the JR.
A JR team has been organized and composed of experts from KREI and SRI with involving of independent experts. A JR was realized from May to September 2017 with a financial support of KREI.
The responsibilities of the JR team were predicted as:
- identifying the most critical areas for value chain of the Samarkand cherry industry;
- implementing extensive survey(s) and study;
- deriving issues and problems;
- recommending measures to initiate policy programs to address the problems
- formulating proposals for future Official Development Assistance projects based on the outcomes.
In addition, relevant information and data will be consolidated for the future collaboration.
An Uzbek part of JR team was responsible for the full cycle of JR. Korean experts in the field of value chain have provided necessary technical guidance and advices.
Moreover, one member of JR team from Uzbekistan has been invited to the KAPEX Academy in Korea for 3 months in order to use Korean approaches, methods and tools for assessing the value chain of agricultural products. This was an important step further achieving the best high-standards results of JR.