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Beyond the state order? Second crop production in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan

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Title Beyond the state order? Second crop production in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan
 
Creator Platonov, Alexander
 
Contributor Wegerich, Kai
Kazbekov, Jusipbek
Kabilov, Firdavs
 
Subject ferghana
loss of water control
second-crop production
state control
Cotton
 
Description After independence in 1991, Uzbekistan introduced a policy on food security and consequently
reduced the irrigated area allocated to cotton and increased the area of winter wheat.
Shifting to winter wheat allowed farmers to grow a second crop outside the state-order system.
The second crops are the most profitable and therefore farmers tried to maximize the area grown
to this second crop. Although the second crops are the most profitable, only few studies have
focused on this topic. Evidence is presented which shows that state control of crops has been
extended from the main crops, cotton and wheat, to the second crops. Satellite images used for
classification of main crops in two provinces of the Ferghana Valley for 2006–2011, highlight
that the area utilized for second crops is dependent on the infrastructure that enables access to the
water resource, not on the area’s position within the irrigation system.
 
Date 2014-03-31
2017-01-05T19:42:43Z
2017-01-05T19:42:43Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/uOFezmwO
Alexander Platonov, Kai Wegerich, Jusipbek Kazbekov, Firdavs Kabilov. (31/3/2014). Beyond the state order? Second crop production in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan. International Journal of Water Governance, 2, pp. 83-104.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/5289
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher Baltzer Science
 
Source International Journal of Water Governance;2,(2014) Pagination 83,104