OREANDA-NEWS. October 30, 2014. The Ministry of Agriculture announced domestic prices of wheat in the current year.

"This year, the average price of soft wheat of the 3rd class in domestic market is formed at the level of 42 thousand tenge per ton," the Chairman of the State Inspectorate in agribusiness of Agriculture Ministry Saktash Khasenov said at a briefing in CCS.

According to him, this figure is much higher than last year. As noted by S. Khasenov, the cost of 4th class wheat is 36 thousand tenge per ton, 5th class – 28 thousand tenge per ton. The representative of the Ministry of Agriculture also said that the loss and reduction of grain quality are compensated by raising the price of grain in the current year.

Ministry of Agriculture has found the data coming from the local executive bodies on grain harvesting and images from space different.

"We have the space monitoring program for harvested areas. Therefore, according to space monitoring, there is a difference between operational reports given by the local executive bodies and the images taken from space. The difference, in general, is somewhere 10-12% on average in the country. 12% - is about 2 million ha," Chairman of the State Inspectorate in the agricultural sector of the Ministry of Agriculture Saktash Khasenov said at a briefing in
Central Communications Service.

According to his words, Kazakhstan on average has harvested 13.1 million ha which accounts for 87.5%.