Uzbekistan the sixth biggest global cotton producer and the third largest cotton exporter witnessed its cotton output declining in the first quarter of 2011.
Alongside, the country also witnessed a double digit dip in cotton yarn production in the same period, the Uzbek State Statistics Committee.
Cotton output fell 3.1 percent to 377,986 tons and cotton yarn production fell 16.7 percent to 30,210 tons in the first three months of 2011.
Uzbekistan exports 75 percent of the cotton produced in the country.