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

Authors

  • Alexander Platonov International Water Management Institute | Central Asia and the Caucasus office
  • Kai Wegerich International Water Management Institute | East Africa and Nile Basin office
  • Jusipbek Kazbekov International Water Management Institute | Central Asia and the Caucasus office
  • Firdavs Kabilov International Water Management Institute | Central Asia and the Caucasus office

Keywords:

cash crops, Central Asia, Ferghana, loss of water control, second-crop production, state control

Abstract

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.

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Published

2014-04-01

How to Cite

Platonov, A. ., Wegerich, K. ., Kazbekov, J. ., & Kabilov, F. . (2014). Beyond the state order? Second crop production in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan. International Journal of Water Governance, 2(2-3), 83–104. Retrieved from https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/ijwg/article/view/5923

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