Uzbek-Swiss joint venture Samfruit, founded in 2002, owns a plant with an area of 10 hectares with its own greenhouses for growing seedlings in the Samarkand district of the Samarkand region, as well as the Samfrut-Organic farm with a total area of 234 hectares in the Nurabad district.

For the first half of 2021, the country's assets in foreign currency increased to $66.1 billion, and the volume of external liabilities amounted to $48.3 billion.

The innovation, once it is brought to fruition, is another radical departure from past practice made possible by the advent of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev’s decidedly secular administration.

The Bukhara oil refinery's current processing capacity is approximately 50,000 barrels a day (bpd).

IsDB has agreed to provide $200 million, while OPEC will allocate $75 million from its Fund for International Development.