As per RIA Novosti reports referring to Dilbar Muhamedova, Head of the Department of Strategic Forecasting of UzTekstilProm (Uzbek Textile Industry) Association, Uzbekistan plans to stop export of cotton fiber and ensure its full processing in the domestic market by 2025. The industry, in 2018 will process about 520,000 tonne of cotton fiber with the current design capacity of 720,000 tonne. In March this year, Shavkat Mirziyoye, President, Uzbekistan announced plans to reduce cotton exports and increase its processing in the domestic market. The country, every year, produces about 3.5 million tonne of raw cotton and 1-1.2 million tonne of cotton fiber. About 50 percent of the produced cotton fiber is exported.