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Omnipresent control of Uzbekistan government in agriculture undermines land tenure securityamong the farmers and as result leads to low productivity and low incentives for investment into theland. In its turn low productivity in cotton farms worries the Uzbek policy makers on whethergiving more freedom to 'private' farms will adversely alter vital production of cotton. In this studywe hypothesized on opportunity of enhancing land tenure security in today's Uzbekistan withoutaltering government's demand for cotton. Specifically we showed that relaxing requirement overthe land occupation under cotton while leaving only government demand for output will result infreeing significant percentage of land area and consequently enhancing land [property] rights.Indeed, our estimates suggest that depending on the soil quality and entrepreneurship skills offarmer, from 3% to 6% of farm lands can be potentially taken out off the cotton production andused for producing alternative crops.
