ABSTRACT
At the time of its emergence as an independent state at the end of 1991, Uzbekistan had been under the typical Soviet system of collectivised agriculture for about six decades, thereby erasing all experience of individual farming from the agricultural population at the time. While agricultural institutions in Uzbekistan during the Soviet period were similar to those prevailing in the rest of the Soviet Union, the outcome, in terms of rural development, was different from the typical Soviet case in several important ways.
