European Journal of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Abstract

At present, the oil and fat industry of Uzbekistan is one of the leading enterprises in the food industry, mainly processing cotton seeds. Further introduction of new equipment and progressive technology, mechanization and automation of production processes, modernization of existing equipment was carried out, enterprises specialized in processing two main types of raw materials: cotton seeds and sunflower seeds. Uzbekistan began processing other types of local raw materials (soybean seeds, safflower seeds, etc.). The expansion of sowings of high-oleaginous varieties of sunflower, soybean, safflower continued and the oil content of seeds increased. For 3 years of the current five-year plan, the oil content of seeds increased by 2% against 4.2% over the period of the previous five-year plan.