Central Asia s White Gold Delivering Diminishing Returns, Farmers Complain globalsecurity.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from globalsecurity.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A potential global economic downturn and climate change threaten to make life increasingly more difficult for the region's outsized, Soviet-legacy cotton industry. But farmers also suspect they are getting a raw deal from profit takers further up the food chain.