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Agricultural relations between Hungary and Uzbekistan are continuously strengthening, said Agriculture Minister István Nagy, who held talks with his Uzbek counterpart, Aziz Voitov, in Samarkand on Wednesday.
The minister noted that talks and cooperation between the two countries are not only on a theoretical level, but also at the project level. István Nagy stressed that food security is a strategic issue to which both countries are paying great attention. He also pointed out
the need for joint responses to the challenges posed by climate change, such as drought and lack of rainfall.
Modernizing and developing irrigation with Hungarian experts is an opportunity that should be seized in the region.
The minister emphasized that there should be a strong focus not only on exchanges of students but also on exchanges of researchers, joint research, and scientific cooperation. Nagy said that
the two countries should go further and cooperate not only in higher education but also in secondary education.
In addition, in June 2023, Dr. Kamal Saidakbarovich Rizaev, Rector of the Tashkent Pharmaceutical Institute, discussed Hungarian-Uzbek cooperation with Semmelweis University. The institution first approached the university in 2021 for possible cooperation, but no concrete areas were identified and no cooperation was formalized back then. However, during the recent meeting, representatives of both institutions were open to the possibility of cooperation, so the identification of concrete areas of partnership could start in the near future. At the end of the meeting, the representatives of the two institutions signed a Memorandum of Understanding.
Earlier this year, the significant strengthening of Hungarian-Uzbek economic relations was also achieved by Minister of Economic Development Márton Nagy at a business forum in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
He highlighted that the economic relations between Hungary and Uzbekistan are continuously strengthening, trade volumes between the two countries have increased despite the global slowdown, while excellent cooperation is observed in the fields of pharmaceuticals, info-communications, agriculture, food, machinery, and chemicals.
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