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Vol.3, No.6, 822-834 (2012) Agricultural Sciences /10.4236/as.2012.36100 Analysis of cotton water productivity in Fergana Valley of Central Asia 1* 2 1 J. Mohan Reddy , Shukhrat Muhammedjanov , Kahramon Jumaboev , Davron Eshmuratov 1 1 2 International Water Management Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan; Corresponding Author: m.junna@ * Scientific Information Center of the Interstate Committee for Water Coordination, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Received 15 June 2012; revised 21 July 2012; accepted 6 August 2012 ABSTRACT water distribution/accessibility. Addressing this inequity would also increase water productivity at field and project level. Cotton water productivity was studied in Fer- gana Valley of Central Asia during the years of 2009, 2010 and 2011. Data was collected from 18 demonstration fields (13 in Uzbekistan, 5 in Taji- kistan). The demonstration field farmers imple- mented several improved agronomic and irriga- tion water management practices. The average values of crop yield, estimated crop consump- tive use (ETa) and total water applied (TWA) for the demonstration sites were, respectively, 3700 kg/ha, 6360 m3/ha, and 8120 m3/ha. The range of values for TWA and ETa were, respectively, 5000 Keywords: Furrow Irrigation of Cotton; Irrigation in Fergana Valley; Water Productivity 1. INTRODUCTION After independence from the former Soviet Union (in 1991), the operation and maintenance of irrigation and drainage systems was neglected due to lack of adequate financial resources. This exacerbated the pre-existing problem of waterlogging and salinity of irrigated lands. In Central Asia as a whole, more than 5.97 million ha of irrigated area out of the total irrigated area of 8 million hectares requires artificial drainage. There were signifi- cant investments in drainage in th