Introduction. One of the priority strategic tasks aimed at reducing the high spatial differentiation of agriculture is their diversification, carried out through the involvement of unused resource reserves in the turnover and the development on this basis of industries whose products have a steady demand in the market. In recent decades, rural areas, despite the progress made in agricultural production, are facing new socio-economic and environmental problems. Agriculture is, in its essence, a life-supporting sector of the national economy and contributes to the improvement of the country's food security, but its role has noticeably decreased over the years of reforms in the economy of Uzbekistan.

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