This article presents an analysis of contemporary Uzbek agrarian change. Firstly, using mixed-methods and triangulating secondary and primary data from Samarqand, it untangles emerging relations of production and exchange during the slow processes of market transition. It shows that different types of public investment, price regulation, subsidies, procurement mechanisms and the pace of marketization to which crops are subject, shaped a slow growth of rural social differentiation and private accumulation. Traditionally, cotton farms have been in a privileged position because they have access to more land and subsidised inputs of production. However, due to recent fast-track liberalisation policies and state-led investment, farms producing High Value Crops—fruit and vegetables—are at the forefront of a new pattern of private accumulation. Secondly, the article reflects on how the gradual approach to market transition has so far squeezed private accumulation, enabling the centralisation of surplus extraction from cotton and wheat. This state-led accumulation strategy is slowly fading, leaving space for market-oriented reforms which will entail new but uncertain distributional and developmental outcomes within and outside agriculture.

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通过缓慢的农业市场转型的积累和社会分化模式：后苏联乌兹别克斯坦的案例

本文分析了当代乌兹别克斯坦的农业变迁。首先，使用混合方法和三角测量来自撒马尔罕的二手和一手数据，它理清了市场转型缓慢过程中新兴的生产和交换关系。这表明，不同类型的公共投资、价格调控、补贴、采购机制和农作物市场化步伐，形成了农村社会分化和私人积累的缓慢增长。传统上，棉花农场一直处于特权地位，因为他们可以获得更多的土地和补贴的生产投入。然而，由于最近的快速自由化政策和国家主导的投资，生产高价值作物——水果和蔬菜——的农场处于私人积累新模式的前沿。第二，文章反映了市场转型的渐进方式迄今为止如何挤压私人积累，从而使棉花和小麦的剩余提取集中化。这种国家主导的积累战略正在慢慢消退，为市场化改革留下空间，这将带来新的但不确定的农业内外分配和发展成果。