
Prof. Aziz Nurbekov
Aziz Nurbekov obtained his PhD at
Uzbek Research Institute of Cereals and Legume Crops under Irrigation in
wheat breeding and seed production in 2003 and got his professor in 2018. For
the past 13 years, he has been worked as an agronomist at ICARDA-CAC office
in Tashkent and has been leading several projects of FAO, IFAD and ADB.
Currently, he is working as a teacher at Tashkent Sate Agrarian University
and an agronomist at FAO Uzbekistan office in Tashkent. His main research
interest is in conservation agriculture in Central Asia. His current research
activities are in the fields of double cropping under conservation
agriculture, as well as in the development of new no-till machinery to
promote conservation agriculture practices in the region. He published more
120 manual, book, manuscript abstract and chapters on wheat breeding and seed
production and conservation agriculture practices in Central Asia region. He
coordinated the multiple-author chapter on Conservation Agriculture in
Central Asia in a CABI book Conservation Agriculture - Global Prospects and
Challenges, which has been published by CABI 2013. Among his various
publications, he is a lead author of the manual on conservation agriculture
in the irrigated agriculture of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
(Ankara, Turkey, 2016).