Consumer goods were produced in amount of 161.9 billion soums (US$115.4 million) in 2008, growth rate amounted to 15.7% as compared with 2007. Food products constitutes 38.0% and light industry products comprise 9.8% in the structure of consumer goods, the report said.

Main purpose of economic reforms implemented in Uzbekistan is an establishment and development of diversified economies in which non-state sector shall again prioritize. Non-state sector amounts 91.3% in the structure of industrial production.

Quantity of small and private enterprises is 14,100 units; and they account for 28.7% of Gross Regional Product of the province.

The share of the regional industrial production in total republican production amounts to 10%.

The economy of the province is based on such industrial enterprises as Navoi Mining and Metallurgical Combinate, chemical industry enterprises (Open Joint Stock Company "Navoiazot," Uzbek-Panamanian Joint Venture Joint Stock Company "Electrokhimzavod"), enterprises producing construction materials (Joint Stock Company "Kyzylkumcement," Joint Stock Company "UPP"), machinery-building and electrochemical factories, a hydroelectric power plant (Open Joint Stock Company "Navoi TES"), enterprises of textile and food industries.

In total, 799 enterprises function in the province with annual production output of more than US$595.2 million.

Industrial enterprises of the province produce more than 50 types of important industrial products, such as ammonia nitrate (70%) of overall republican production," nitronic fiber (100%), sulfuric acid (25.4%), protective chemicals for plants (4.1%), ammonia sulfate (1%), cement (50%), precast reinforced concrete products (4.2%), cotton fiber (3.5%), hosiery (1%) and knitwear products (0.5%), jewelry products (56%), walling materials (6%), foodstuff such as bakery products (2.4%), meat and meat products (2.1%), confectionery products (1.3%) and beer (2.6%).

Infrastructure of transport communications is well developed in the province: there are eight railways and nine automobile stations, two airports and developed network of automobile roads in the province. Length of railways constitutes 390.7 kilometers.

Tashkent-Turkmenistan and Tashkent-Uchkuduk railway lines trespass the territory of the province.

Length of automobile roads amounts to 4.1 thousand kilometers of which 3.300 km with hard surface, 300km for the international value, 2,878 km for the regional interest, and 814 km for local importance. Electric main airline: 220kV, 23.43km, 110kV-891.5km, 35kV-935.69 km, 6-10kV-5247.33, 04kV-3748.98km. Cable: 6-10kV-26.37km, 0.4kV-15.06km.

A large modern airport is situated in the city of Navoi that can receive different types of aircrafts, including Airbus and Boeing.

A big major project of establishing a sub regional air hub and logistics center is expected to be implemented on the base of this airport.

The province possesses rich minerals and raw materials resources.

Minerals and raw materials resources of the province are described with availability of such fields as Muruntau gold bearing field, silica sand fields (of more than 1.5 billion tons), deposits of granite (1.9 billion cubic meters) and marble (420.0 million cubic meters) as well as phosphorites (1.5 billion tons), precious and eare-earth metals, bentonitic clay, basalts, kaolin rocks, limestones, dolomites, wollastonites and feldpar.

One of the most important types of non-metallic raw materials is silica sands. Jeroy, Aydaly and Kulatay silica fields are most thoroughly explored.

There are detected more than 50 occurrences of kaolin rocks on the territory of the Central Kyzylkums; kaolin rock deposits constitute 204.8 thousand tons for a given average yield of 35%. Kaolin concentrate is used for production of low-grade ceramics as well as in refactory industry and coarse ceramics.

Deposits of slate coal, dolomitic limestones are explored in the province; extraction of feldspar in Lyangar field which deposits constitute 9.2 million tons in made. There are also a Lyavlyakan salt field located in Kanimekh district and a Tuzkuduk salt field in Uchkuduk district.

Limestones reserves constitutes 43.3 million tons according to Categories A+B+C1, and 2.2 million tons according Category C2 in the province.

Such fields of building semi-precious stones, such as Gazgan and Nurata marble fields, Lyangar and Karasoy granite and gabbro fields, Azlartal and Karasoy fields of granite for facing materials and wollastonites fields are in the province.

Phosphorites fields such as Jeroy-Sardar, Janakhmet and Tashkura stand out with high content of P2O5.