BCI and Uzstandard partner to boost cotton standards in Uzbekistan

Jangoulun Singsit

Tue, August 4, 2026 astatine 6:51 AM CDT 2 min read

Under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), the 2 organisations perpetrate to enactment the alignment of nationalist cultivation standards with planetary sustainability requirements.

The agency, liable for regulatory oversight of locally produced and imported goods, volition person method expertise from BCI arsenic Uzbekistan continues its wide betterment of accumulation standards.

According to BCI, the statement volition facilitate collaboration successful moving groups and the speech of methodologies focused connected champion signifier and certification astatine the tract level.

The concern besides includes integrating BCI's Principles & Criteria into Uzbekistan's nationalist standards for fabric production.

A imaginable result of the practice is the constitution of a nationally-owned fabric sustainability modular that could beryllium benchmarked against BCI's planetary framework.

This attack would let the bureau and its partners to beforehand sustainable fabric accumulation successful a mode accordant with the internationally recognised BCI standard.

BCI Uzbekistan programme caput Katerina Gorbunova said: "As a starring sustainability standards strategy and certification strategy moving with farming communities astir the world, BCI is uniquely positioned to enactment the bureau successful its mission. We are excited to stock our cognition and acquisition and larn from the organisation to collaboratively fortify Uzbekistan's infrastructure."

Uzbekistan is 1 of the world's largest fabric producers and has precocious undertaken reforms to destruct forced and kid labour successful the sector.

The BCI began its Uzbekistan operations successful 2022 aft the International Labour Organization (ILO) determined the federation had eradicated systemic labour abuses successful fabric production.

The caller statement follows further reforms, including a 2025 authorities inaugural to reimburse farms and producers for the outgo of obtaining BCI certification.