TY - JOUR AU - Rusramova, Iroda PY - 2022/01/14 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Crop Diversification Analysis at the Farm Level: Empirical Evidence from Different Regions of Uzbekistan: Crop Diversification Analysis at the Farm Level: Empirical Evidence from Different Regions of Uzbekistan JF - Архив научных исследований JA - TSUE.UZ VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Статьи DO - UR - https://journal.tsue.uz/index.php/archive/article/view/463 SP - AB - <p>In Uzbekistan, land is more appropriate for cultivating fruits and vegetables. Since independence, the government of<br>Uzbekistan has implemented a number of agricultural policies such as making some crucial structural reforms at the farms,<br>comprising different institutions and enhancing diversification of agricultural production in order to stabilize on agricultural<br>sector of the country. Therefore, crop diversity has an important role in sustainable agriculture. The main purpose of the study<br>is to examine the degree of crop diversification among farmers. We calculated the diversification index based on the Simpson<br>Diversity Index method. The study revealed the mean computed Simpson Index values indicate that diversity index was found<br>0.59, 0.45, 0.56 and 0.62 for Andijan, Karakalpakstan, Kashkadarya and Tashkent regions, respectively. This implies that<br>Tashkent region farmers shifted towards more diversification cropping patterns than other counterparts of the country. The<br>overall result in the four states combined in this study reveals a mean Simpson Index within the sample of farmers was 0.56.<br>This suggests that the farmers in the study areas were not too diversified in their cropping pattern. While cultivating several<br>crop species also helps the farmers to manage both price and production risks which attains more food options for the<br>household and income through marketing the produce from the surpluses.</p> ER -