Khalimakhon Suleymanova

Khalimakhon Suleymanova (, ; 30 June 1907 – 1993) was a Soviet Tajik collective farmer known for the development of innovative methods in cotton farming. The most productive cotton farmer in the Tajik SSR in 1946, she started her own technical school where she would teach her techniques in agricultural science, with one of her students outproducing her the following year.

Biography Khalimakhon Suleymanova was born on 30 June 1907 in the Emirate of Bukhara in modern Tajikistan. She was an ethnic Tajik. During the Soviet era, she became a team leader at the Kaganovich collective farm in the Koktash district (Somoniyon) in the Stalinabad region (Rudaki district), where she produced cotton. She worked under the directorship of and was well-regarded by the local elders.

During World War II, Suleymanova gave several speeches to other collective farmers, stating in one: "The joint struggle of the two great powersthe USSR and Great Britain – will hasten the defeat of the fascists and liberate the peoples of Europe from the Hitlerite yoke. We must work with even greater energy in the rear and devote all our strength to the homeland". In another speech, she stated: "we must mobilize more of our energy for the front". Suleymanova was very productive during this period, being able to harvest 100 centners of cotton per hectare.