What is produced on farmland is criticalto the agriculture sector outcomes. If other objectives,such as farm incomes, jobs, water security, were consideredas important as producing more of wheat and cotton inUzbekistan, the farmland use structure will have lookeddifferently. This report offers an example of more balancedallocation of farmland, which can increase agriculturalproduction by 51 percent, employ 16 percent more people inprimary agriculture, and save 11 percent water by 2030. Allthis can be achieved without undermining food security (forexample, wheat supply) and development of textile industry.Outlooks are subject to uncertainty and the identified gainsmay not be necessarily realized. Yet, the benefits of morebalanced farmland use are too large to be ignored for thefuture of agriculture development in Uzbekistan.
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