Javlon Vakhobov: The Fergana Valley is a market of 18 million people
Over the past 10 years, Uzbekistan's trade turnover with Central Asian countries grew from 2.5 to almost 8.5 billion dollars, while the region's mutual trade reached about 11 billion dollars. Economist Javlon Vakhobov sees potential in integrating the seven regions of the Fergana Valley, with a population of about 18 million people, into unified production chains.
Nilufar Karimova