As of today, as the correspondent of the IA “Kazakh-Zerno” was reported in the regional department of agriculture, it is harvested about 352 thousand hectares of cereal crops, or about 63% of the target. The harvest exceeded 611 thousand tons; yield is 17 quintals per hectare. As the pace of cleaning ahead of Semey, Urjarsky and Kokpektinsky areas are the leaders in the pace of harvesting works.
On the same date, was mowed down more than 40% of buckwheat, peas is completely removed. Crop yields were respectively more than 11 and almost 17 quintals per hectare. Harvesting of mixture of grains is advancing gradually; it is mowed down more than 75%.
We recall that in 2012 grain yield in EKR was approximately 10.8 quintals per hectare compared with 17.4 in 2013.