苏联是世界上主要产棉国之一。棉花种植面积为3700万亩,占播种面积的1.2%,平均亩产皮棉105斤,总产皮棉168万吨。棉区集中于南部高温,无霜期长,雨量少有灌溉条件的中亚和外高加索地区,即包括:乌兹别克、塔吉克、哈萨克、土库曼、吉尔吉斯、阿塞拜疆、阿尔明尼亚和格鲁吉亚几个共和国,其中以乌兹别克最多。 The Soviet Union is one of the major cotton producing countries in the world. Cotton planting area of ​​3700 mu, accounting for 1.2% of sown area, the average per mu yield of 105 pounds of lint, lint of a total of 1.68 million tons. The cotton areas are concentrated in Central Asia and the Transcaucasia, which are hot in the south, have a long frost-free period and have little irrigation and include the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia Uzbekistan up.