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TASHKENT (TCA) — Foreign investments will not be attracted into charter capitals of 93 cotton-processing factories in Uzbekistan, Novosti Uzbekistana news agency reported. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbek civil society activists on behalf of more than 140,000 people from around the world on March 9 in Washington, DC presented a petition to World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim, calling on the Bank to suspend lending to the agriculture sector in Uzbekistan until the Uzbek government changes its policy of forced labor in the cotton industry, said the Cotton Campaign, a global coalition of labor, human rights, investor and business organizations coalesced to end forced labor of children and adults in the cotton sector of Uzbekistan. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Eleven plants in Uzbekistan will produce cooking oil from non-traditional oil-bearing crops — soy, sunflower, and safflower, Novosti Uzbekistana news portal reported. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — In 2015 Tajikistan exported around 108 thousand tons of raw cotton for US $144.5 million, an almost 25-percent increase compared to 2014, Avesta news agency reported. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan will until 2020 reduce the production and state purchases of raw cotton from today’s 3.350 million down to 3 million tons a year, Uzbek President Islam Karimov said at the Government meeting on January 15, Novosti Uzbekistana reported. Continue reading
