Abstract

The new agricultural technology and conserving of state farms into individual and small house hold plots (sharkets and dekhans) has bought changes in the traditional cropping pattern in Uzbekistan, particularly in the two food crops - wheat and rice. During the period of 1991 to 1995 there were no changes in the cropping pattern. But from 1996 to 2001, the increase in area was marginal in the two food crops, but the increase in production was most significant. Gradually, the area increased at the cost of cotton crop. From 1981 to 1990 to 1991 to 2001, there was an increase of more than 10% in area. The low yield per hectare of food grains has been replaced by the high yielding varieties (HYV) of wheat and rice. In case of non food crops, during the last three decades, the area under cotton and tobacco varied between 0.71 and 0.61 thousand hectares since 1981.

Key words: Cropping pattern, food grains, non food grains, sharkets, dekhans.