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\parbox[b]{13.4cm}{\centering \large{\textbf{Tropentag, September 14-16, 2010, Zurich}}\\[1ex] \Large{``World Food System  ---\\A Contribution from Europe''\\[2ex]}}
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\Large{\textbf{The Use of Scarce Input Resources in the Zeravshan Valley's Agriculture: A Case Study for Uzbekistan\footnote{\textbf{Contact Address:} Shavkat Hasanov, Samarkand Agricultural Institute, Agricultural Economics and Management, Senckenbergstraße 3, 35390~Gießen, Germany, \mbox{e-mail}: \email{shavkat_hasanov@hotmail.com}}\\[0.8ex]}}
\normalsize{\textsc{Shavkat Hasanov$^{1}$, Mirza Nomman Ahmed$^{2}$}}
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\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{1}$Samarkand Agricultural Institute, Agricultural Economics and Management, Germany}}}
\item[]{\small{\textit{$^{2}$Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Agricultural and Development Policy, Germany}}}
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Data availability and quality constraints have made it increasingly hard to retrieve valuable results that could lead to a better understanding of the agricultural sector and its contribution to feeding the people in the case of Uzbekistan. The main issue investigated in this paper is the scarcity of resources, especially water is not readily available. The major export commodity cotton has to be grown in accordance to state directives. The right to own private land has yet to be granted. The inexperience of newcomers to the agricultural sector makes it an extremely challenging task to be efficient and use the agricultural input resources in a sustainable manner. In early 2010 a survey was carried out among private (farmer) and household (dehqon) farms mainly of the Samarkand and partly of the Navoiy and Kashkadarya region's counties. The survey was conducted in the framework of the German foreign ministry funded project CliNCA (Climate Change Network for Central Asia) through the Giessen University (JLU) and the Samarkand Agricultural Institute (SAI) in Uzbekistan. The survey covered 102 farms and households, random selection was insured. The main questions included the types and modes of input resources use, off"=farm income sources, questions related to farm management and other social questions. The efficiency of recourse use in different organisational farm types is evaluated and an economic assessment of yields from main agricultural crops on different land and farm types is conducted. The average farm size in the area surveyed amounted to \mbox{59\,ha} for the 67 private farms and on average \mbox{0.4\,ha} for the 35 household farms. The analysis of farm performance was carried out using a CBA. The findings clearly indicate that input resources are not used efficiently, especially in the case of cotton growing farms, the farm performance in total is negative. The analysis as a novelty also addresses the use of voluntary assistance labour (hashar) based on a shadow"=price framework and also tried to incorporate household labour. In terms of technology use, a trend towards demechanisation could be seen, which is found to be driven by high unemployment outside the agricultural sector.}

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\noindent \textbf{Keywords:} CBA, scarce resources use, Uzbekistan
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