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Presidential Decree No. UP-4041 “On measures to optimize the areas under crops and increase food production."

Country/Territory
Uzbekistan
Document type
Regulation
Date
2008 (2018)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Land & soil, Cultivated plants
Keyword
Agricultural land Agricultural commodities Crops/grasses Textile plants/fibres
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
Entry into force notes
This Presidential Decree enters into force on the date of its official publication.
Abstract

The President, due to the recurring lack of water over the past years, steady growth in prices on the world market for foodstuffs, and also in order to further increase production volumes and expand assortment of food crops grown in the country and ensuring on this basis the most complete satisfaction of needs population in food products and, ultimately, increasing income and welfare of the rural population, decrees as follows: (a) to reduce, beginning from the harvest of 2009, volumes of cotton raw production under contract farming (Annex 1); and (b) to increase, beginning from the harvest of 2009, areas sown by grains (Annex 2).

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Website
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