OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2014. The grain harvest will be more than 15.5 million tons for the net weight in Kazakhstan. It was announced by Vice Minister of Agriculture Saparkhan Omarov at the annual international exhibition on agriculture and animal husbandry "KazAgro / KazFarm 2014".

"According to the agriculture departments of regions and space monitoring, we plan to collect about 17 million tons of grain, including 8 million tons will be produced for export," Vice Minister said responding to reporters' questions.

However, he clarified that it is assumed that grain harvest will be "around 15.5 million tons for the net weight. "Good quality of grain is expected, due to the fact that summer was rainy this year.

According to the Agriculture Ministry, agricultural producers have harvested 13 125.2 thousand hectares, which is 87.5% of the regions’ harvested areas, 16 201.2 thousand tons were grinded, the average yield was 12.3 t / ha.

International exhibitions: “KazAgro-2014" - agriculture and food industry and “KazFarm-2014" - livestock and meat industry opened at the exhibition hall "Korme" in Astana.

The organizer is the International Exhibition Company "Expo Group", with the official support of the Ministry of Agriculture, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture og Germany, Astana administration, JSC "NMH "KazAgro", VDMA, the Chamber of Commerce of North Dakota. General sponsor is NGO "Combine Plant" Rostselmash".