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). Full text Russian Website lex.uz