Dehkan farm

A dehkan farm (Uzbek: деҳқон хўжаликлари, Tajik: хоҷагиҳои деҳқонӣ (фермерӣ), Turkmen: daýhan hojalyk, Russian: дехканские хозяйства; all from Persian: دهقان) is an individual or family farm in Central Asia.

The term, from دهقان (dehqân, "landowner"), originally a Persian word used in the Sassanid Empire, it is still utilized in the classification systems of several Central Asia governments.

[3] The small dehkan farms grow vegetables and raise livestock.

Scale crops, such as wheat and cotton, are usually grown on larger peasant farms (average size more than 40 hectares[3]) and on the few remaining shirkats (former collective farms).

[8] Dehkan farms concentrate in crop production (cotton, wheat, and vegetables) and their share of livestock is minimal.