1 Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (Yangling, China)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29202/up/17/7
Received: 20 August 2025 / Accepted: 4 December 2025 / Published: 30 December 2025
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Keywords: Agricultural productivity, rural development, CO2 emission, rural investment, infrastructure, Pooled Mean Group Autoregressive Distributed Lag (PMG-ARDL), Uzbekistan, transition economies, sustainable agriculture
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