AGRICULTURE OF KARAKALPAKSTAN IN 1960-1980s: PEOPLE, EVENTS, HOPES
Keywords:
agriculture, party leadership, artificial irrigation, social sphere, chemicalization, cotton, agricultural policy, raw cotton, collector, cotton ginning industry, monoculture, bioclimatic, ecological, pesticides, defoliationAbstract
This article examines the processes of transformation of agriculture in the 1960s-1980s in Karakalpakstan. During the reforms, the agriculture of Karakalpakstan specialized in the production of cotton, rice, alfalfa seeds, karakul skins, wool and silkworm cocoons. The development of agrarians for the cotton monoculture required the development of new irrigated lands, that the agriculture of the republic was based on artificial irrigation, this in turn developed the irrigation industry of the republic, in general, it should be noted that the natural resources of water did not reach the Aral Sea. As a result, the excessive use of the waters of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya and the transformation of Karakalpakstan into one of the whole caused catastrophe of the Aral Sea. In connection with the development of cotton growing, the need for supplies has increased, the republic with grain, vegetables and fruits, from an agrarian-productive republic of Karakalpakstan has turned into a consuming one.
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