See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265550854 Beyond the state order? Second crop production in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan Article · March 2014 DOI: 10.7564/14-IJWG58 CITATIONS READS 4 107 4 authors, including: Kai Wegerich Jusipbek Kazbekov Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Consultative Group on International Agr… 104 PUBLICATIONS 536 CITATIONS 40 PUBLICATIONS 238 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE SEE PROFILE All in-text references underlined in blue are linked to publications on ResearchGate, Available from: Kai Wegerich letting you access and read them immediately. Retrieved on: 16 September 2016 International Journal of Water Governance 2 (2014) 83–104 83 DOI: 10.7564/14-IJWG58 Beyond the state order? Second crop production in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan Alexander Platonova, Kai Wegerichb,*, Jusipbek Kazbekova and Firdavs Kabilova aInternational Water Management Institute – Central Asia and the Caucasus office. Apt.121, House 6, Osiyo Street, Tashkent 100000, Uzbekistan. Phone: + 998-71-2370445; Fax: + 998-71-2370317 E-mails:
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[email protected] After independence in 1991, Uzbekistan introduced a policy on food security and conse- quently 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.