Tajikistan's food-processing industry includes canning, meat and milk, flour-milling, baking, brewing, and wine enterprises whose products go to domestic and foreign markets. Enterprises in the canning industry have immense export potential that has yet to be developed. There are approximately 30 canning enterprises that operate in the country with capacities that ranges from 1 million to 10-20 million conditional jars of canned products per year. The majority of canning plants are located in the northern portion of the country where fruit and vegetables plantations are concentrated. Exported products include: a wide assortment of fruit concentrates, fruit and vegetable juices, jams, preserves, tomato paste, pickles, and dried fruit. A majority of canned products are exported to northern and eastern areas of Russia, Kazakhstan and other CIS countries.

History. Tajikistan has the unique bioclimatic conditions necessary for growing fruits and vegetables. Therefore the canning industry, one of the leading industries of Tajikistan, has developed an industrial and material base. During the Soviet era the Green Bridge Project supplied areas of Urals, northern, eastern and western Siberia, and the Far East with fresh, canned, dried fruits and vegetables. As a result, a series of large canning plants were constructed in Central Asia. Some of these plants were: Kanibadam canning plant, Kostakoz canning plant, Khujand canning factory.