In the long term, the development of a cotton monoculture would render Turkestan dependent on food imports from Western Siberia, and the Turkestan–Siberia Railway was already planned when the First World War broke out.
Over time, the cultivation of a single type of cotton in Turkestan would lead to its dependence on food imports from Western Siberia, and the construction of the Turkestan–Siberia Railway had been anticipated prior to the outbreak of World War I.