Impact of agricultural land use in Central Asia: a review

A Hamidov, K Helming, D Balla - Agronomy for sustainable development, 2016 - Springer
Agriculture is major sector in the economy of Central Asia. The sustainable use of
agricultural land is therefore essential to economic growth, human well-being, social equity …

Agricultural impacts drive longitudinal variations of riverine water quality of the Aral Sea basin (Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers), Central Asia

P Leng, Q Zhang, F Li, R Kulmatov, G Wang… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
River ecosystems are under increasing stress in the background of global change and ever-
growing anthropogenic impacts in Central Asia. However, available water quality data in this …

Environmental impacts and nitrogen-carbon-energy nexus of vegetable production in subtropical plateau lake basins

Y He, R Su, Y Wang, S Li, Q Huang, X Chen… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Vegetables are important economic crops globally, and their production has approximately
doubled over the past 20 years. Globally, vegetables account for 13% of the harvested area …

Improvement of drainage water quality through biological methods: a case study in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan

JU Anvarovich, B Dagmar… - European science …, 2016 - cyberleninka.ru
Agriculture is major sector in the economy of Uzbekistan, which uses about 92% of available
water. Due to the country's climatic conditions, almost all agriculture depends on irrigation …

Agricultural transition and technical efficiency: An empirical analysis of wheat-cultivating farms in Samarkand Region, Uzbekistan

B Sherzod, KR Kim, SH Lee - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Wheat and wheat products are an important part of the daily diet of Uzbek people, and thus,
are under strategic consideration in terms of food security in Uzbekistan since the beginning …

Nitrogen use and the effects of nitrogen taxation under consideration of production and price risks

R Finger - Agricultural Systems, 2012 - Elsevier
Production and price risks affect optimal nitrogen use as well as the effects of nitrogen
taxation if farmers' risk aversion is taken into account. We apply a bio-economic model to …

Factors affecting efficiency of cotton producers in rural Khorezm, Uzbekistan: Re-examining the role of knowledge indicators in technical efficiency improvement

AA Karimov - Agricultural and Food Economics, 2014 - Springer
Few efficiency studies, to date, have been conducted for Central Asian countries. This article
fills the gap in the literature by conducting a frontier efficiency analysis using survey data …

Can domestic wheat farming meet the climate change-induced challenges of national food security in Uzbekistan?

M Babadjanova, I Bobojonov… - … Journal of Water …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This study is the first to develop food supply and demand projections over the 21st century
for Uzbekistan by considering the combined effects of climate change and soil salinization …

Evaluation of effects of cotton policy changes on land and water use in Uzbekistan: Application of a bio-economic farm model at the level of a water users association

N Djanibekov, R Sommer, U Djanibekov - Agricultural Systems, 2013 - Elsevier
Various agricultural policies have been implemented in post-Soviet countries as they move
from centrally planned to market economies. In the agriculture sector of Uzbekistan, Central …

Stochastic economic assessment of afforestation on marginal land in irrigated farming system

U Djanibekov, A Khamzina - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2016 - Springer
We analysed the economic viability of afforestation on marginal irrigated croplands in
irrigated drylands of Uzbekistan. The revenues derived from a combination of diversified …