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Presidential Decree No. PP-4633 “On measures for large-scale introduction of market principles into cotton growing.”

Country/Territory
Uzbekistan
Document type
Regulation
Date
2020
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Cultivated plants
Keyword
Plant production Textile plants/fibres Cereals/grains/rice Planting material/seeds Certification Cooperative/producer organization Business/industry/corporations Plant variety Contract/agreement Crops/grasses Agricultural commodities
Geographical area
Aral Sea, Asia, Asia and the Pacific, Central Asia, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Europe and Central Asia, Landlocked Developing Nations, North Asia
Abstract

The President, for the purpose of the introduction of market principles that ensure free competition in agriculture, cancellation of the state order for cotton and grain production, improving economic efficiency of production and interest of product manufacturers, creation of additional jobs due to the wide attraction of investments, decrees to cancel, beginning from harvest 2020, state order for the production of raw cotton. Starting from the 2020 harvest: (a) the practice of setting purchase prices for raw cotton shall be cancelled; raw cotton producers (farms, cotton-textile clusters, cooperatives) shall be granted the right of free cotton variety placement of zoned cotton; in order to provide raw cotton producers with quality seeds, the system of certified seed supply (including the current procedure for payment of premiums for seed cotton) is being maintained, with seed clusters under the Seed Development Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture as well as cotton-textile clusters being gradually assigned the aforesaid responsibility; (b) in regions without cotton-textile clusters, shall be created on voluntary basis cooperatives at cotton ginning enterprises; the main tasks of cooperatives shall be set forth as follows – cotton production by the conclusion of contracts with cooperatives; procurement, transportation, storage and processing of raw cotton; and trade of cotton through exchange trading or in accordance with direct contract; (c) the discount of 10 percent on cotton fiber, produced on the national territory and applicable for the formation of starting price on stock exchange, shall be cancelled; and (d) certified seeds for the purpose of consistent increase of raw cotton yield for 2020 harvest period shall be supplied by seed producing facilities and cotton-textile clusters systems of JSC "Uzpakhtasanoat".

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