Forecast for Kazakhstan grain harvest increased
The Kazakh Agriculture Ministry increased grain harvest forecast
for 2013 to 16.3 million tons net weight, Deputy Agriculture
Minister Muslim Umiryaev said.
Novosti-Kazakhstan reported that earlier the Ministry planned to
harvest 15 million tons net weight.
"Currently over 67 percent of crops are in good condition, over 30
percent - in satisfactory. As a result of this fact we forecast to
harvest 16.3 million tons of grain," Umiryaev said at the
government meeting.
Kazakhstan is among the world's major grain exporters. In 2011 the republic had a record harvest of nearly 27 million tons of grain in net weight. Kazakh farmers yielded only 14.8 tons due to the drought in 2012, which occurred in summer in main grain regions.
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