Uzbekistan just had its annual cotton fair. During the October 12-13 event in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, Uzbekistan reported that it had signed contracts to sell some 550,000 tons of cotton and ...

During negotiations Lidselmash signed a contract on delivering cotton cultivators to Uzbekistan. The first batch will be ...

Uzbekistan has pledged more transparency in a cotton industry blighted by a reputation for relying on child labor and press-ganging of unwilling individuals. Yet, authorities are hounding those trying ...

The president of Uzbekistan has signed a decree ordering the abolition of the state-order system for cotton crops, in effect ending a decades-old arrangement that encouraged forced labor. Under the ...

In light of recent reports highlighting progress in eliminating child and forced labor from the Uzbek cotton industry, Uzbekistan has pushed for the lifting of the Cotton Campaign’s pledge in which ...

Uzbekistan harvested 9 million tonnes of grain and over 3 million tonnes of cotton in 2024, so this year's grain harvest fell 6.7%, while the cotton harvest increased by approximately a third.

Uzbekistan is providing an unprecedented look into how its annual cotton harvest is carried out. But while Tashkent's decision to provide access to outside monitors might be intended to show ...

(L-R) Better Cotton Initiative systems integrity senior director Jannis Bellinghausen and Light Industry Agency director Nozim Kholmuradov. Credit: Better Cotton Initiative. The Light Industry Agency, ...

Uzbekistan’s cotton harvest has, in many ways, come to embody the country’s gravest problems. Forced child and adult labor epitomized an autocratic state and an iron-fisted ruler. Naturally, when ...

Editor’s Note: Klara Skrivankova is Europe Program and Advocacy Co-ordinator at Anti-Slavery International. The opinions expressed are her own. Cotton is ever-present in our lives. It is in the ...

Uzbekistan just had its annual cotton fair. During the October 12-13 event in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, Uzbekistan reported that it had signed contracts to sell some 550,000 tons of cotton and ...