This paper describes the status of agriculture and environmental issues in Uzbekistan and other Central Asian states. The paper also outlines the recent research and development project being conducted in Uzbekistan to promote conservation agriculture technologies for wheat and cotton production. No-tillage and bed planting technologies were trialled for the first time in Uzbekistan to grow winter wheat at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanisation Engineers Research Farm. These were compared to conventionally grown wheat. Wheat yield obtained was 3.44, 3.96 and 3.57 t/ha in no-till, bed planting and conventional fields respectively. These results suggest a high potential for irrigated wheat crop production with the use of such technologies in Uzbekistan.
