The Cotton Campaign has called on the Uzbekistan government to strengthen reforms in the country's cotton production.

The 2024 harvest saw a shortage of pickers, government backtracking on positive legislation, and issues stemming from the cotton cluster system; problems rooted in continued state efforts to ...

Increasing Uzbek farmers’ autonomy is critical to addressing forced labour risks and attract responsible sourcing ...

The Uzbek Forum's findings from monitoring the 2023 cotton harvest point at some instances of forced labor when voluntary workers were scarce. After a dozen years, the Cotton Campaign has ...

Uzbekistan is one of the few cotton-growing countries that has not mechanized the cotton harvest and continues to rely on manual labor to pick cotton. In 2014, the Government of Uzbekistan decided to ...

TASHKENT. March 18 (Interfax) - Export duties on 86 types of goods will be introduced in Uzbekistan starting July 1 in line with a decree of President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. The text of the document was ...

Today, Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley, once home to travelling caravans of merchants trading in colourful bazaars, is now the location of a thriving textile hub. Uzbekistan textiles have long been ...

The Uzbek Tax Committee announced that Uzbekistan would introduce export duties for 86 raw materials including natural gas and cotton ...

With improvements in productivity, Uzbekistan’s agriculture sector has considerable potential to boost growth and become a critical source of rural employment and an important driver of poverty ...

Much of Russia’s war machine reportedly remains reliant on exports of cotton pulp, or cellulose, from two factories in Uzbekistan. Cellulose is a key ingredient in nitrocellulose, or ...

In stark contrast, Cotton Growers field a weaker 4-4-2 formation. Their reliance on Uzbekistan national team player Sergeyev and Brazilian import Tabata’s individual prowess has yet to develop a ...

A man prunes an elm tree in Kazankethen, Uzbekistan. Such drought-tolerant trees still line some of the dry irrigation ditches that once diverted water to enormous cotton farms from the Amu Darya ...