Assessing the Social Impact of Cotton Harvest Mechanization in Uzbekistan

Swinkels, Rob ; Romanova, Ekaterina ; Kochkin, Evgeny

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: POULTRY;    FARM LABOR;    VILLAGE LEADERS;    PRODUCTION OF COTTON;    FERTILIZER;   

RP-ID  :  105190

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

The Government of Uzbekistan (GoU) hasrecently adopted a policy to mechanize the cotton harvest aspart of its drive to modernize the agricultural sector.Under Uzbekistan’s state-order system it is compulsory formany farmers to grow cotton. They are contractuallyobligated to produce stipulated quantities that are annuallyset by the government, and must sell these to the GoU at aprice fixed by the government. Almost all cotton inUzbekistan is harvested by hand, even though mechanizationexisted during the Soviet period. An estimated 2.2–3 millio