A 2007 BBC Newsnight report stated that this forced labour occurs for two and a half months each year, in a cotton industry controlled completely by the Uzbek state.
在2007年，BBC的《新聞之夜》節目中報導了烏茲別克的強制性童工在完全由政府控制的棉花產業中，每年會出現兩個半月。