The dominance of cotton in the irrigated areas of Central Asia has long been criticized for its ecological effects on … dominated by the conventional cotton and wheat rotation introduced after 1991. The second district is home to a wide range of … hands-on experience of harvest mechanisation in the traditional cotton region so far. In addition to the state delivery …

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …