ECONOMIC MECHANISMS AND POSSIBILITIES OF SUPPORTING AND STRENGTHENING FRUIT AND VEGETABLE GROWING IN UZBEKISTAN

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The article examines state support for the fruit and vegetable industry in Uzbekistan, the conditions created, economic mechanisms and opportunities. First of all, it covers issues of increasing labor productivity, linking production with science, providing personnel, and introducing newmodern technologies. Key words:fruits and vegetables, productivity, quality, innovation, agriculture, national center, technology, services, food products, processing. Positive work is being carried out to effectively use existing opportunities to further enhance the global prestige and position of the new Uzbekistan. Today, in the fruit and vegetable sector, which plays an important role in the export of agricultural products, there is a need for priority areas such as increasing the productivity of fruit and vegetable crops, expanding the range of products, developing intensive gardening, monitoring product quality, advising farmers on modern technologies, knowledge and skills, providing seeds, seedlings, fertilizers and other resources, assisting in obtaining loans, and organizing agricultural machinery rental services. The agrarian reforms underway in the country will serve to further develop the fruit and vegetable sector in Uzbekistan by addressing such tasks as increasing the production of export-oriented products in the fruit and vegetable sector, introducing a certification system for producing products in accordance with Global GAP and other international standards, developing organic farming methods, improving the infrastructure for storing, processing, and packaging products, improving the logistics system and reducing transportation costs, andexpanding theuseof e-commerce platforms. The Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PF-6159 dated February 3, 2021 “On further development of the system of knowledge and innovations in agriculture and the provision of modern services” focuses on the issues of “full implementation of the Strategy for the Development of Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2020-2030, as well as the provision of scientifically based information and modern services to business entities, the widespread introduction of scientific achievements and innovations into production, and ensuring the organic integration of the system of education, science, production and provision ofagricultural services.”1 The National Center of Knowledge and Innovation in Agriculture under the Ministry of Agriculture, which connects the integrated system of providing modern agro-services to 1 Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PF-6159 dated February 3, 2021 “On further developmentofthesystemofknowledgeandinnovationsinagricultureandtheprovisionofmodernservices” page46 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ISSN:2692-5206,ImpactFactor:12,23 AmericanAcademicpublishers,volume05,issue05,2025 Journal: https://www.academicpublishers.org/journals/index.php/ijai education, science, production and agricultural entities in the agricultural sector, and is responsibleforthe following activities: - ensuring the organic integration of education, science and production in the agricultural sector; - ensuring the organic integration of education, science and production in the agricultural sector; - establishing beneficial scientific and production cooperation with farms, agricultural clusters and cooperatives, as well as advanced foreign scientific and research institutions, introducing newscientificdevelopments, innovations and digital technologies; - coordinating the scientific and research activities of all types of state scientific and higher educational institutionsin theagricultural sector; - ensuring the retraining and advanced training of personnel, taking into account the current andfuture needs ofagricultural sectors for qualified specialists; - carrying out fundamental, applied and innovative research in the agricultural sector, training highly qualified scientific and scientific and pedagogical personnel, and improving their skillsbased onadvanced experience and modern technologies; - development of the national network of information and consulting services, which ensures the effective exchange and transfer of knowledge, qualifications and skills, with extensive involvementof theprivate sectorinagriculture; - includes issues such as assistance in the introduction of international quality standards, establishmentof aplatform for cooperation between producers andagribusiness. It was also indicated that the implementation of tasks to ensure the interaction of all types of state research and higher education institutions conducting scientific research and training personnel in theagricultural sector and its branches, toeffectively organize retraining and advanced training of specialists, to ensure the systematic improvement of State educational standards, curricula and programs in higher and secondary specialized and vocational education institutions based on the needs