Beyond the state order? Second crop production in the Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan

After independence in 1991, Uzbekistan introduced a policy on food security and consequently the irrigated area allocated to cotton and increased the area of winter wheat. to winter wheat allowed farmers to grow a second crop outside the state-order system. second crops are the most profitable and therefore farmers tried to maximize the area grown this second crop. Although the second crops are the most profitable, only few studies have on this topic. Evidence is presented which shows that state control of crops has been from the main crops, cotton and wheat, to the second crops. Satellite images used for of main crops in two provinces of the Ferghana Valley for 2006?2011, highlight the area utilized for second crops is dependent on the infrastructure that enables access to the resource, not on the area?s position within the irrigation system.