20.08.2019

Some time in its history Muinak was famed for its fishing industry. During last year’s trip to the region, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev voiced recommendations to revive and promote the fishing industry based on existing reservoirs.
 
Muinak Aqua Sanoat state unitary enterprise, itself a result of this initiative, was set up with a project cost of 20 billion soums. It will be possible here to process 4 thousand tons of fish a year, produce 200 tons of smoked fish, 780 tons of minced fish, 400 tons of fillets, 9 million pieces of canned fish. Almost 60 jobs will be created. 
 
Currently, the construction of the enterprise’s building has been completed, equipment is being installed. The plant is scheduled to be commissioned in September.

The President was also briefed about the works underway to develop fish farming in Karakalpakstan. 17 projects have been devised for the industry, whose implementation will bring fish harvesting to 15 thousand tons, and its processing level up to 36 percent.

Attention was also paid to the gardening of the dried bottom of the Aral Sea. If in the previous 42 years saxaul plantations were created here on an area of 400 thousand hectares, then starting in 2018 almost 500 thousand hectares are covered with protective forest stands. It was noted that in the next two years, another 700 thousand hectares could be covered with green coat.

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