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DIRECTIONS FOR INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF FOOD PRODUCTS
Khamdamova Marjona Adham kizi
1st year student of the Master's program at KarDTU
Abstract:
This article discusses the economic efficiency and efficiency assessment
mechanisms of food industry enterprises, in which a SWOT analysis is conducted to help
enterprises improve their activities, increase competitiveness and achieve sustainable
development. A conclusion is made on the ways to increase the economic efficiency of food
industry enterprises, and measures are considered to ensure food safety in our country.
Key words:
food products, SWOT analysis, economic efficiency, effectiveness, efficiency
assessment, competitiveness, mechanism, investment, export, technology, quality,
competition.
The adoption of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PF-36
“On Additional Measures to Ensure Food Safety in the Republic” dated February 16, 2024
made it possible to achieve qualitative changes in the sector. “As a result of measures taken
in recent years to develop the food industry in the republic, attract investment funds to the
sector and support export activities, the volume of food production has exceeded 6.1 billion
US dollars, and their annual export volume has exceeded 510 million US dollars. Also, over
the past three years, the production of 75 types of import-substituting food industry products
worth 289.9 million US dollars has been ensured, and the volume of imports has decreased
by 7.4%. The share of the food industry in the republic's industry has increased from 14
percent to 16.6 percent.”
In the next five years, the Strategy for Ensuring Food Security and Healthy Nutrition
of the Republic of Uzbekistan until 2030 focuses on important issues, including the
introduction of effective mechanisms to support industrial production activities,
modernization of existing capacities, technical and technological re-equipment, attraction of
investments in new projects, further expansion of the range of competitive products on the
market, diversification of the production of import-substituting products, and an increase in
the volume of production of high value-added products by 1.5 times and export indicators by
2 times. In recent years, systematic work on diversifying agriculture, more rational use of
available land, water and other resources, and the production of agricultural and food
products through the use of modern and intensive technologies is gradually bearing fruit. In
particular, due to the effective use of arable land throughout the year, agricultural and food
crops were planted as main, intermediate, and repeated crops, and high yields were obtained
from them, creating an opportunity to increase sales not only in the domestic market, but also
in foreign markets.
The transition to a new and integrated approach to managing each sector of the agrarian
and food sectors, along with ensuring the rapid and sustainable development of these sectors,
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Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PF-36 dated February 16, 2024 “On additional
measures to ensure food security in the Republic”
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is an important factor in increasing the volume of agricultural and food production in
Uzbekistan, increasing the added value and competitiveness of products. The most important
tasks for strengthening Uzbekistan's sustainable agricultural and food system in order to
ensure sufficient food for all are:
- ensuring the sustainability of agricultural production;
- reducing product losses and waste in the food supply chain;
- sustainable management of natural resources, land, water and food reserves;
- combating transboundary animal diseases and plant pests;
- improving advisory and information systems and knowledge-building services in rural
areas to sustainably increase crop yields and livestock productivity.
The World Health Organization recommends limiting the consumption of sugar, simple
carbohydrates, saturated and trans fats, and instead eating fruits and vegetables. The negative
impact of unhealthy diets and malnutrition on the global economy is estimated at US$3.5
trillion per year, or US$500 per capita. According to analyses by the World Health
Organization and the United Nations Development Program, the hidden additional costs of
lost productivity due to malnutrition in Uzbekistan are 3.5 times higher, amounting to 7.3
trillion soums.
In the process of world globalization, diversification of products offered by food
enterprises is considered as a way to increase the efficiency of enterprises. As our President
noted, “Currently, food security and the production of ecologically clean products are urgent
issues on a global scale.” In solving this, it is necessary to pay attention to two aspects of the
issue.
First, from the point of view of food security, the world population is growing, which
means an increase in demand for food. Secondly, ensuring sufficient food resources for
people becomes a key task. Global climate change has a negative impact on agriculture,
reducing productivity and causing food shortages. Political instability disrupts food supply
chains and limits access to food. Large amounts of food are wasted from production to
consumption, increasing the demand for food resources. In addition, plant and animal
diseases and pests can reduce yields and threaten food security.
When analyzed from the perspective of the production of environmentally friendly
products, the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides in agriculture, as a result of
environmental pollution, leads to soil, water and air pollution. The situation is negatively
affected by such factors as loss of biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture, soil
degradation, and shortage of water resources. The objective need to replenish the food
industry with products produced in our country implies the effective operation of food
industry enterprises, since ultimately it depends not only on the standard of living of the
population, but also on the development of the economy as a whole.
Food security is the economic condition of the state, which guarantees the full coverage of
consumer needs of all segments of the population, taking into account their physical, social
and economic capabilities, ensuring compliance with safety indicators, and conditions for the
production of food products with high nutritional value.
In order to systematically address these issues and expand citizens' access to basic
services that are important for healthy nutrition, the following will be implemented:
- Social protection, that is, strengthening work on allocating land plots to citizens
registered in social registers in order to systematically organize their self-sufficiency in food;
- Monitoring population health:
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- Ensuring food safety:
- Organizing work to promote and incite healthy nutrition.
New reforms are being implemented in our country to further improve food processing
enterprises. In particular, the Decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PF-
5853 dated October 23, 2019 “On approval of the Strategy for the Development of
Agriculture of the Republic of Uzbekistan for 2020-2030” was adopted. According to the
Decree, a number of priority tasks have been identified aimed at increasing the production
and processing of food products. Important tasks were outlined, such as ensuring food safety
and improving consumer diets, developing and implementing a state food security policy that
provides for the cultivation of food products in the required quantities, and introducing
mechanisms to reduce state participation in the sector and increase investment attractiveness,
which provides for increasing the flow of private investment capital to modernize, diversify,
and support sustainable growth of agriculture and the food industry. In particular, the
development of food processing enterprises through the strategy for 2020-2030 will ensure
the achievement of the economic indicators shown in the table below. With 117.3 trillion
soums (14 billion US dollars) of added value created in agriculture, its annual growth is
expected to increase by 3 percent in 2021, and by no less than 5 percent in 2025 and 2030. In
2018, the volume of exports of agricultural and food products amounted to 2.3 billion US
dollars, and in 2021 it will reach 3.5 billion US dollars. US dollars, planned to reach 10
billion US dollars in 2025, and 20 billion US dollars in 2030”.
Uzbekistan's food industry enterprises have a strong raw material base and cheap
labor, but outdated technologies and lack of infrastructure limit their competitiveness.
Therefore, the industry can be developed through export opportunities, attracting investments
and introducing new technologies. Increasing competition, increasing imports and climate
change are considered serious threats to enterprises. As a result of this SWOT analysis,
strategic plans of food enterprises are developed and provide practical assistance in
improving their activities. The mechanism for increasing the economic efficiency of food
industry enterprises is a set of interrelated and complementary measures, which are
systematic actions aimed at increasing the efficiency of resource use of the enterprise and
thereby improving its economic performance.
In conclusion, we emphasize that the ways to increase the economic efficiency of
food industry enterprises include the following:
- Optimization of production processes, i.e., reducing production costs, updating
technologies and automating processes.
- Finding sources of cheap and high-quality raw materials by improving the supply of
raw materials, strategic cooperation with suppliers.
- Introduction of modern management methods as a result of improving management,
optimizing decision-making processes.
- Development and implementation of effective marketing strategies, developing the
brand, strengthening marketing.
- Training and advanced training of employees, improving the motivation system.
- Support for modern innovations, i.e., development and introduction of new products
and technologies, support for research and development.
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Thus, increasing the efficiency of food products begins with product development and
requires the use of all opportunities.
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