For Exploited Uzbek Farmers, Tall Cotton Rates Just Enrich Overlords

For Exploited Uzbek Farmers, Tall Cotton Rates Just Enrich Overlords

Mamurjon Azimov and their family been employed by as cotton farmers for years in Uzbekistan’s Jizzakh region. But year that is last Azimov had been kicked from the land he had been renting from the state as a result of his hefty debts

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Now unemployed and trying to feed their group of five, Azimov blames a very nearly feudal agricultural system in Uzbekistan that enriches just a a small number of the governmental elite that have ties to President Islam Karimov. (more…)