Uzbekistan, the world’s 8th largest cotton producer and the 11th largest exporter, produced 3.8 million tonnes of cotton in 2020 in over 1,3 million hectares of land.

The government predicts economic growth this year of 3.2 percent.

Baku is spending millions of dollars on infrastructure projects in Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding regions liberated during the war.

In April alone the economy expanded by a record 44.8 percent, compared with a 16.6 percent contraction a year ago, the National Statistics office said.