Today, the Expo-centre of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the country hosted the opening of the international exhibition of modern food production technologies.
It is remarkable that increase in volumes of output of various agricultural produces, ensuring of food abundance in the country – top priority of the social and economic policy of Turkmenistan, which is successively realised by President Serdar Berdimuhamedov.
Thanks to efficient measures aimed at intensive development of agricultural food production sector and all-round state support of local agricultural manufacturers, considerable successes have been reached in the given sphere. Within the realisation of long-term government programs, large investments are made into modernisation, technical and technological re-equipment of all branches of the agro-industrial complex.
Complex reforms, called to generate legal, economic and organizational conditions for competitive agro-industrial production, meeting the requirements of the time, yield positive results. The present exhibition where both local and foreign exhibitors take part, can serve a visual example for it.
… In spacious halls of the Expo-centre, the live festive atmosphere prevails. Workers of art and culture welcome participants and visitors of the exhibition with their best music and song compositions.
Members of the Government, heads and representatives of the Mejlis, ministries and departments, diplomatic corps accredited to Turkmenistan, public organisations and mass media took part in the solemn opening of the exhibition.
The gathered with great attention heard a welcoming message of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov addressed to participants of the international exhibition. In the message of the head of the state, it is said that in the Era of Revival of the New Epoch of the Powerful State, cardinal measures are taken for maintenance of food security in the country and decrease in dependence on import of consumer goods.
In this area, we have gained positive experience and we also expand international cooperation. The separate attention is given to study and introduction of advanced global solutions in food manufacture, intensification of regional and international partnership in the given sphere.
Turkmenistan as one of the countries, which supports adoption of proper and effective measures to solve global food issue, holds representative meetings, large exhibitions, forums and other events to promote constructive cooperation in this area.
Food security for Turkmenistan is not only a primary factor of preservation of state sovereignty and independence, but also a fundamental platform for maintenance of economic relations of profile national and regional markets. They allow raising standards of living of population, to expand foreign trade in the goods and raw materials and to develop import replacing and export-oriented manufactures.
Solution of issues in this area first of all consists of maintenance of volumes of supply of products for healthy nutrition at sufficient level and secondly, protection of interests of their manufacturers and minimisation of share of import.
Assistance to manufacturers of agricultural and food production, maintenance of its availability to the population as well as increase of competitiveness of our consumer goods in internal and external markets act as main tasks on achievement of food security in our country like in many other countries.
Thanks to adoption of well thought measures to achieve target goals, the food supply system not only satisfies the demand of consumers, but also allows our state to join international economy, to involve investments for promotion of industrial potential, - the message of the President of the country reads.
The platform of the present exhibition reflects not only achievements of Turkmenistan in the agro-industrial complex sphere, but also a huge potential of business structures, which displays activity in this branch. More than hundred local and foreign exhibitors displayed products. Among them - Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Environmental Protection, profile enterprises and structures as well as Turkmen businesspersons.
Along with them, participants of the international exhibition from Russia, Turkey, Belarus, and Uzbekistan presented their stands where they made an emphasis on innovative technologies and know-how.
It is necessary to note that the given exhibition significantly promotes the strengthening of international cooperation in exchange of high technologies of food manufacture, attraction of investments into program projects and development of methods of creation of reliable system in the given field and their realisation.
Foreign companies presented various packing lines, amalgamators of forages, seeders, harvest and soil-cultivating machines, units for manufacture of vegetable oil and drying system.
Foreign entrepreneurs acquaint participants of the exhibition with modern designs applied in construction of hothouses, cattle-breeding farms and work carried out in the field of ecology. Among them - companies «Yms Sera Sistemleri», «Dagdelen Sera» and others.
Pavilions of businesspersons of foreign countries where irrigational systems of drop irrigation, mineral fertilizers with components of protection of plants, various seeds, packages and labels for them are displayed evoke a particular interest.
Uzbek companies «Ermak», «Parlak Ambalaj» and Russian company «Polimer» propose their services for the first time at the exhibition. Turkish companies «Uluçinar Tarim», «Markka Genetik» display mineral fertilizers, «Ardent Plastik A. Ş.» - irrigating systems for agriculture, «Günsa Makina» - machinery for the agro-industrial complex.
Goods of home producers, which differ with their high quality and level of ecological safety, enjoy a high demand in foreign markets. The activity of trade missions of UIET is aimed at realisation of export potential of Turkmen businessmen, attraction of advanced world experience and foreign investments and application of formats of active international business interaction in foreign countries.
At the initiative of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the economic society «Hil standart» in Turkmenistan creates a laboratory centre for examination of safety of food production, competence of which was approved by International Standards Organization ISO/IEC17025:2017. The international certificates ISO and HACCP received by them testify to high quality and ecological safety of food production made by local enterprises.
Turkmen businesspersons realise measures with a view of obtaining a high yield of crops at the expense of development of new irrigated areas, organisation of additional sowing of agricultural crops and planting of fruit-trees and grapes.
Technical and technological modernisation - significant aspect of the reforms, which are carried out in the national agro-industrial sector. Here as an example, it is possible to cite the results of mechanised work in the agro-industrial complex by means of telematics digital electronic control system.
Transition to new forms of management in rural areas, focused on market relations, promotes saturation of home market by various products of local production, expansion of export potential of the agro-industrial complex. Besides it, active introduction of innovations for promotion of volumes of output and profitableness fully justify the investment made on national private business in maintenance of import replacing.
Digital know-how are successfully applied in agricultural production. In the country the number of modern manufactures, including hothouse economies, which produce various high-quality non-polluting food production increases.
Here technological processes - from sowing, cultivation of agricultural crops and care of them, to the organisation of work of agriculturists - are based on a digital platform. Maintenance of certain temperature and light mode, humidity of air, enrichment of soil by nutrients, irrigation by means of water saving technologies, other corresponding agro-technical activities are carried out in an automatic mode and supervised by means of computer programs. In turn, it provides high productivity and creates necessary conditions for all-the-year-round production of excellent quality of produces in industrial volumes.
Introduction of digital format also allows the manufacturer in an online mode entirely to trace a logistical chain of realisation of production - from the moment of its loading and sending to deliver to destination, including the information on time of delivery, cargo weight and data on its safety in proper condition, the name of the country and client and others. It gives the chance to solve in due time corresponding issues, to study optimum routes and ways of delivery of the goods to internal and external markets taking into account the current marketing situation and consumer demand.
With a view of complex management of agro-industrial sector and perfection of its activity, according to Resolutions of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov adopted in the Era of Revival of the New Epoch of the Powerful State, research institutes of grain growing, agriculture, cotton growing were created. It urged to promote deepening of transformations in the agricultural branch and its assumption of a qualitatively new level and increase of productivity of crops.
So, among exponents of the exhibition - agrarian enterprises, modern hothouse economies, which are industrial-processing complexes on poultry farming, animal industries, processing of vegetables and gourds and fruits.
Let's remind that in 2015 Turkmenistan was awarded a special award of FAO for achievements in the field of maintenance of food safety as by one of the goals of development of the third millennium. The abundance and variety of domestic goods on shelves of shopping centres and the markets both in the capital, and in all velayats of the fatherland also testifies to the successful solution of problems on manufacture of import replacing production, including food-processing industry.
Companies «Lebiz plastik», «Ýedidogan Nur», «Toprak», making packages for goods, ES «Nowa-Med», specialising in water-purifying equipment displayed their goods. By improving their activity, they rely upon world experience and high technologies.
It will be pertinent to point out that, following noble tradition of a reasonable approach to water use, today in our country large scale program measures aimed at saving and rational use of water resources are realised. A great deal of work has been carried out to save these invaluable riches of the country and efficient use of water in recent years. Saving technologies and latest scientific achievements are introduced in manufacture.
Possessing a wide experience in water use in the arid zone, Turkmenistan is in the forefront of scientific researches in this sphere, calling other states for efficient use of water resources.
Put forward by our country at the 78th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization the proposals on food safety, ecological well-being including on pressing issues of ecology and water diplomacy received a wide support of international public.
Soft drinks and pure drinking water of enterprises "Arçalyk", «Sada suw», ES «Ak ýaprak», «Mahmal Zip», natural vegetable and fruit juice and nectars were displayed in a rich assortment at the exhibition. Enterprise «Parahat» displayed in its exposition such popular juices «Joş», «Eçil», cold tea, sausages, baby food (fruit-vegetable sauce), dairy production of long storage, some grades of ketchup and tomato paste, made of natural local raw materials.
At the exposition platform one could see products of famous manufacturer of dairy production - «Gönezlik», closed joint-stock company «Süýt» and others. «Şerbet Market» and «Halk Market» also set up their stands.
As a whole, consecutive increase of efficiency of activity of national agriculture - one of the overall objectives in the context of large-scale transformations carried out for happy life of our people and further prosperity of our independent neutral fatherland.
In the second half of the day, at the exhibition advertising and presentation events took place - demonstration of new technologies, equipment and production of companies-participants of the exhibition.
The exposition, which in a word, opened today, gives unique possibility to track know-how in technologies and the systematic work aimed at development of agricultural food sector.
Tomorrow, the international exhibition will continue its work. On the margins of the exhibition bilateral meetings where positions on development of cooperation and the further strengthening of mutually beneficial business partnership will be co-ordinated, are planned.
