Weak state financing hampers attraction of investments into Tajikistan’s agribusiness
Almaty. March 15. Silkroadnews – Weak state financing hampers attraction of investments into Tajikistan’s agribusiness, Tajik Telegraph Agency (TajikTA) reports with reference to the national strategy of the Republic of Tajikistan.
“A weak mechanism of state funding for enterprises operating in agro-industrial complex in Tajikistan makes it difficult to attract investments to build the large, high-performing agribusinesses”, the National Development Strategy of Tajikistan until 2030 states.
Among the specific industry problems there are also the backward material and technical base of the agribusiness with limited access to information on potential sales markets, duration and high cost of foreign trade operations, which all contribute to building threats to ensure food security.
The strategy also notes the imperfection of the mechanism for regulating land relations in the agrarian sector and a weakened irrigation system.
The document authors also note inefficient management of water resources in the agro-industrial complex, continued dependence of the country’s economy on the import of food products, equipment, components, organic fuel, timber.
Significant risks for development of the agro-industrial complex due to long-term global climate changes include a low level of ecological sustainability of agricultural development, degradation of land and water resources, pollution, salinization, water logging, rising groundwater levels, forest areas reduction, withdrawal of land from agriculture, the document says.
