The roadmap is intended to boost the production of sustainable cotton in the Uzbekistan, which is one of the world’s largest cotton producers. Uzbekistan is unique for its cotton clusters ...

Uzbekistan has a long tradition in growing cotton. Today, it is among the world’s top 10 producers, with an annual production of about one million tons. Prior to 2017, nearly two million adults and ...

Better Cotton gave its blessing to a strategic roadmap created with agricultural and textile stakeholders in Uzbekistan to accelerate the country's sustainable cotton production. The global cotton ...

The collaboration between Better Cotton and Uzbekistan marks a step toward achieving a more sustainable and responsible cotton sector, benefitting all stakeholders involved. Credit: Better Cotton ...

According to the UN Comtrade database, in 2021, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan shipped $4 million worth of cotton pulp to Russia. In 2022, the first year of the great war, this figure increased by 150% ...

Russia’s missile power starts with cotton. A recently sanctioned dual UK-Uzbekistani tycoon is at the heart of Russia’s ...

Uzbekistan is the latest country to be on the receiving end of the technology and know how of Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, which set up shop there a few ...

The Better Cotton Initiative says the launch of the Better Cotton Programme in Uzbekistan will allow the newly privatised cotton sector to continue to reform and meet international standards through ...

Uzbekistan's cotton industry has experienced a resurgence since an international boycott came to an end, witnessing growth and a shift to quality textiles Uzbekistan is the world's sixth-largest ...

Now in their late twenties, Sevara* and Aziz* are two of the almost two million children who were subjected to forced labour in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan between the 1990s and 2020.