Uzbekistan’s state-run Uzbeklegprom Joint Stock Company (JSC) has planned a five year project from 2015-2020 to increase domestic processing of cotton fiber for which the company will direct about US $ 1 billion. At a press conference organized by the international exhibition company ITE Uzbekistan prior to opening of the Central Asian International Textile Machinery Exhibition (CAITME 2014) and TextilExpo Uzbekistan, Dilbar Muhamedova, Head-JSC said, “The program provides for an increase in domestic processing of cotton fiber from 44 per cent this year to 70 per cent in 2020, with a corresponding increase in textile export from US $ 800 million to US $ 1.5 billion.” The domestic processing of cotton fiber was increased from 7 per cent in 1991 to 44 per cent in 2014.