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Kazakhstan increases sowing area for highly profitable crops

Business Materials 8 April 2020 21:10 (UTC +04:00)
Kazakhstan increases sowing area for highly profitable crops

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr.8

By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:

Sowing area of highly profitable crops such as oilseeds, vegetables and fodder crops has been increased by 238,000 ha this year, Kazakhstan’s Vice Minister of Agriculture Aidarbek Saparov said, Trend reports with reference to the ministry.

He said that this year the overall sowing area of agriculture crops was increased to be 22.5 million ha.

Saparov said that sowing already began in country’s southern regions: some 249,500 ha of sowing area (67 percent of total regional area for sowing) were finished in Zhambyl region, 167,500 ha in Turkestan region (25.5 percent), 97,100 ha in Almaty region (15.6 percent), 23,900 ha in Kyzylorda region (17.6 percent).

He added that in order to implement sowing work a total of 2.5 million tons of seeds were prepared, completely covering the seeds demand.

“Currently over 1 million tons of seeds were quality checked. Some 95 percent of the seeds passed the test, whereas remaining 5 percent did not. The seeds testing continues at the moment,” Saparov said.

He added that regional budget allocated 11.3 billion tenge (425.9 million) to subsidize seed production development this year, whereas 2.5 billion tenge ($5.7 million) were allocated from the republican budget to purchase nearly 29,400 tons of seeds and 838,700 elite seedlings.

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