The 13th Uzbekistan International Agricultural Exhibition was held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, from November 25 to 27, 2020. Exhibits covered a wide range of areas, including agricultural machinery, livestock and poultry equipment, and grain storage and processing equipment.
The Uzbekistan (Tashkent) International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, sponsored by the Uzbek Ministry of Agriculture and organized by the renowned exhibition company IEG, is a comprehensive agricultural exhibition now in its 12th year.
In 2018, 109 exhibitors from 14 countries, including Belarus, Iran, Spain, Italy, Poland, and Turkey, participated. It is a premier platform for exhibitors to exchange and learn about agricultural machinery and related products.
It is Uzbekistan's largest, most professional, and technologically advanced exhibition, serving as a dedicated exchange and trading platform for domestic and international agricultural machinery companies and users.
Uzbekistan, with a population of 27 million and an area of 449,000 square kilometers, is located in Central Asia, bordering Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan. Its capital is Tashkent. It boasts the fastest-growing economy in Central Asia and is a prime investment destination for major international banks.
Uzbekistan's Agriculture Overview: As a country steeped in irrigated agriculture, agriculture is a traditional sector.
Agricultural output accounts for 25-30% of GDP and 60% of foreign exchange earnings, making it a crucial component of the national economy.
Non-state-owned enterprises dominate the agricultural sector, accounting for over 99%. Uzbekistan currently has 22.37 million hectares of agricultural land, including 4.034 million hectares of arable land and 12.85 million hectares of pasture.
In recent years, the country's grain output has remained at around 6-6.5 million tons, with wheat and rice being the main products.
Uzbekistan is also a major producer of fruits and vegetables in Central Asia, with an annual output of approximately 2.5 million tons of fruits and 4 million tons of various vegetables.
Uzbekistan has a long history of animal husbandry, primarily producing wool and meat, with a significant production and export of lamb skins.
The country currently ranks second in the world in terms of total sheep production. Its sericulture industry is well-developed, ranking sixth globally.
Uzbekistan is the world's fifth-largest cotton producer and second-largest exporter, with an average annual cotton (seed cotton) output of 3.5 million tons, accounting for approximately 40% of its agricultural output.
Regarding cooperation in agricultural machinery, the primary advantage of Chinese agricultural machinery over that of European and American counterparts is its affordability and high quality.
Uzbek farmers manage relatively small plots of land, making China's smaller agricultural machinery more suitable for Uzbekistan's conditions.
Starting in 2021, the exhibition officially established itself as the leading agricultural exhibition in Central Asia, entering a phase of high-quality development.
AgroWorld Uzbekistan, the core exhibition, has established a regular schedule-held annually in March at the Tashkent Exhibition and Convention Center, with an exhibition area of 12,000 square meters, over 220 exhibitors, and 10,000 professional visitors.
The 19th edition in 2024 attracted over 120 international companies from 13 countries and 3,127 professional visitors.
2025 marked a significant milestone in the exhibition's development:
AgroWorld Uzbekistan, held in March, celebrated its 20th anniversary. Since its inception in 2006, it has attracted 1,846 companies from 43 countries and 117,180 visitors, becoming a key gateway for global agricultural companies to enter the Central Asian market.
The current exhibition features three notable features: First, the sector segmentation is more precise.
The livestock sector covers intelligent breeding equipment, embryo transfer technology, and environmentally friendly manure treatment systems, while the grain machinery sector focuses on smart irrigation, integrated grain drying and storage equipment, and automated production lines for deep processing of agricultural products, meeting the upgrading needs of Uzbekistan's cotton and grain industries (the country is the world's sixth largest cotton producer).
Second, international cooperation has deepened, with over 20 countries, including China, Turkey, Germany, and India, becoming core exhibitors. Chinese companies, with their cost-effective small agricultural and grain machinery, have become important participants in the exhibition, further highlighting the complementary nature of China-Uzbekistan agriculture through the exhibition.
Third, the exhibition matrix has been improved, forming a year-round exhibition system of "AgroWorld (Spring Comprehensive Exhibition) + AgriTek (Autumn Technology Exhibition) + Uz Prodexpo (Autumn and Winter Agricultural and Food Exhibition)".
Uz Prodexpo integrates agriculture with the food and forestry industries, further expanding the application scenarios of grain machinery and livestock equipment.
By 2025, this series of exhibitions has become a "barometer" reflecting the level of agricultural modernization in Uzbekistan: the livestock sector has been upgraded from the display of traditional equipment to the output of smart breeding solutions, and the grain machinery sector has expanded from single storage equipment to the display of full-chain processing technology.
The exhibition has not only promoted the implementation of advanced agricultural technologies in Central Asia, but also become a key hub for agricultural trade cooperation between China, Europe and Central Asian countries, providing continuous impetus for Uzbekistan's agricultural export expansion and industrial upgrading.
