Uzbekistan abandons forced labor
State-sponsored use of slave labor to pick cotton was once a factor that turned Uzbekistan into a pariah on the international stage
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Uzbekistan’s opening-up boosts exports
Central Asia’s most populous country has made notable advances in recent years in its transition to a private sector-led economic growth model, and is already reaping the benefits. According to Fitch Ratings
How Uzbekistan’s cotton industry cleaned up its act
A combination of government-led reform, international pressure, higher wages, and the return of migrant workers from abroad has all-but eradicated the use of child and forced labour in the Uzbek cotton harvest. As Emerging Europe …
Mirziyoyev’s four years in power: what have changed in Uzbekistan
Reofrms brought the state to a new level
Uzbekistan plans to phase out exporting raw cotton
Tashkent moves to lower cost of cotton for manufacturers
Uzbekistan seeks end of cotton boycott
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Azerbaijan refused to supply cottonseed oil to Kyrgyzstan before completion of harvest
Azerbaijan's Center for Analysis of Economic Reforms & Communications will present an export review on the first 9 months of 2017. The Centre reports that the Centre received export orders for $355.8 million for Jan-Sept of the year …
Ashgabat to host international cotton fair in November
The 7th International Trade Fair of Cotton Products and International Conference 'Cotton products of Turkmenistan and World Market' will be held in Ashgabat on November 25-26, the event organizers said. The event will be held …
Azerbaijan to use US cotton harvesters
Azerbaijan's Agriculture Minister Heydar Asadov met with the regional representative of the US company John Deere, Maximilian Poug, today, the country's Agriculture Minister said in a statement. During the …
Azerbaijani President: “We will be able to produce 300 thousand tons of cotton in 2017”
"More than 200 thousand tons of cotton will be produced next year. I do not want to voice any figures. I do not want to give any specific instructions, time will show. But we need to know in what order we should increase the production of …
Karimov’s successor faces an economic mess
Low energy resources prices and decrease in the value of remittances sent from Russia became a source of Uzbekistan's economic problems
Turkmenistan to host cotton fair on November 28-29
The Turkmenpagta State Concern, the State Commodity Exchange and the Chamber of Commerce of Turkmenistan said that the annual exhibition-fair of cotton products of Turkmenistan will be held on November 28-29. The International …
Turkmenistan harvests cotton
Turkmenistan harvested 1.05 million tons of raw cotton, the Turkmen Ministry of Agriculture said. Some 545,000 hectares of irrigated land have been allotted for cotton in Turkmenistan, where 95% is allotted to 12 upland varieties, …
