BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 18. Kazakh farmers will receive 704,000 tons of fertilizers for spring field work, with 63 percent manufactured locally, Trend reports, citing the press service of the Prime Minister.
Some 257,000 tons were already shipped to farmers, including 144,000 tons of fertilizers made in Kazakhstan.
The overall cost of the subsidy program is 31.3 billion Kazakh tenge ($69.22 million).
Additionally, the farmers will receive 419,000 tons of subsidized diesel fuel. Subsidized fuel will cost 204 Kazakh tenge ($0.45) per liter, which is 30 percent less compared to the market price. So far, farmers received 47 percent of the subsidized fuel.
The government is also financing the sowing campaign via the government program that looks to allocate 140 billion Kazakh tenge ($309 million) to 3,200 farmers. The program is drawing a lot of attention, as the government received 4,169 applications requesting 150.8 billion Kazakh tenge ($333.51 million).
Since the start of the spring field work, Kazakh farmers have sowed 832,900 hectares in southern regions. Overall, around 23.4 million hectares are planned to be sowed in the framework of the spring work.