DUSHANBE, April 27, 2009, Asia-Plus — Tajik company, Somon Capital, hosted a roundtable meeting last Saturday to present a survey on state of the confectionary industry in Tajikistan as well as to discuss problems facing the confectionary industry and ways to find solution to them.
The meeting participants included representatives from the State Committee for Investments and State-owned Property Management (GosKomInvest), Consultative Council for Improvement of Investment Climate in Tajikistan, Tojikstandart (state agency for standardization, metrology, certification and trade inspection), State Unitary Enterprise Khurokvory (food industry) as well as representatives from the country’s confectionary industry.
The main objective of the meeting was to discuss ways to promote development of the confectionary industry in Tajikistan, the source at Somon Capital said.
The survey, in particular, shows that production of confectionery in the country fell 99 percent in eight years to December 31, 1999. From 2000 to 2008, an average annual rate of growth in production of confectionery in Tajikistan had been 0.75 percent. The present volume of domestic market is more than 45,000 tons per year, which is nearly equal to the 1991 level.
The meeting participants proposed to establish an association of confectioners of the country for protection of their rights and improvement of quality of local confectionery.
