Uzbekistan is putting a multi-billion-dollar processing drive at the centre of its export strategy, combining government targets with company-level industrial plans to keep more of the value generated by agricultural goods, metals and minerals inside the country.
The push includes a $10bn (€8.8bn) food-processing ambition by 2030, a $4.2bn (€3.7bn) technological metals project pipeline and 880,000 tonnes of planned sheet-steel localisation. It also includes copper-processing agreements that one of the country's largest mining groups says could multiply profits.
