The Jizzak Province is one of Uzbekistan's major producers of wheat and other cereals. Besides cereals they cultivate forage plants, vegetables, melons and gourds. Animal husbandry consists of cattle, sheep, goat and pig breeding. Construction materials used primarily for irrigation needs dominate industry in this area. There is also a plastic factory and cotton purification plants. The province has numerous mines for lead, zinc, iron, lime and limestone extraction. Chemical and mechanical engineering, especially electromechanical, the textile industry and agricultural production processing is growing fast in Djizak. The main goal of the mechanical engineering industry is the reconstruction and modernization of existing enterprises and to upgrade production to world standards using advanced technologies. The Province's light industry branch should update its factories that produce cotton yarn, knitted cloth, socks and stockings.