According to the Novosti UZEX newspaper, in five months, the volume of feed sales through the Uzbek Republican Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange exceeded 1.5 million tons, which is 56.6% more than in the same period in 2022.
The average level of feed sales through the exchange amounted to 305.3 thousand tons per month.
Feed wheat accounts for the largest volume in the structure of feed sales (76%).
Compound feed with a specific gravity of 8% is in second place.
As for the meal and husk, their share was 8% and 7%, respectively, and barley – 1%.
In the dynamics of prices in the cottonseed meal market at the beginning of the year, stability is observed. In January-April 2023, prices amounted to about 4 million soums per ton.
In May, prices dropped to 3.6 million soums per ton.
Cotton seed husks fell in price from 3 million soums per ton in January-April to 2.7 million soums in May.
From January to March of this year, prices for mixed feed amounted to 2.1 million soums per ton. In April, prices began to rise to 2.3 million soums per ton, in May they reached 2.4 million soums per ton, and this is the maximum figure for the period under review.
In the structure of buyers, the share of Tashkent and Tashkent region amounted to 36%. Ferghana region occupies 11% of the livestock feed market and 9% of transactions are concluded in Samarkand region, the newspaper notes.
V. Novikov
