Тошкент ирригация ва қишлоқ ХЎжалигини механизациялаш муҳандислари институти

water reforms and cooperation in agriculture“ focuses on the description of the 
study area, the principles of the establishment of the WUA in Samarkand province. 
In this chapter we describe agrarian reforms, and provide a comparative analysis of 
agriculture in Samarkand and Fergana provinces. Furthermore, the chapter provides 
an analysis of the current situation of cooperation in agriculture. The comparative 
part of the research is based on the official statistical data of the Ferghana and 
Samarkand province. Analysing the WUA establishment principles shows that most 
principles were considered in establishing WUA in Samarkand province. However, 
most water users in Samarkand province are not aware about WUA and consider it 
as part of the district water management department (former “Rayvodkhoz”). There 
is a significant difference in establishing WUA between Samarkand and Fergana 
provinces. In Samarkand, “one district – one WUA” principle was used, while 
Fergana province has many smaller WUAs in each district. 
Furthermore, in our study we estimate cooperation in irrigation and crop 
production in two regions: Samarkand (Uzbekistan) and Turkistan (Kazakhstan). 
Main features of those two regions are given in Table 1. This table shows that two 
regions have significant differences in agricultural reforms in organizational, socio-
economic and legal aspects. The main features of these differences have been 
revealed in the dissertation. 
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Deniz Kandiyoti (2002). Agrarian Reform, Gender and Land Rights in Uzbekistan. United Nations 
Research Institute for Social Development
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Ahmad Hamidov et.al. (2015) Institutional design in transformation: A comparative study of local 
irrigation governance in Uzbekistan. Environmental science & policy 53. pp 175-191 

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One of the purposes of the research is to systematically evaluate the influence 
of agrarian reforms on agricultural crop output. By doing so this study is focused on 
the question of how various reforms affected agricultural sector performance. To 
answer this research question, we use the case of Samarkand province which went 
through almost the same style of agricultural reforms as in other regions of 
Uzbekistan. The study is based on official statistics covering the entire post-
independence period (1991-2019) in district level of Samarkand province.