Harvesting of grain is already nearing its end in the region. On September 29, as correspondent of the IA “Kazakh-Zerno” was informed in the regional department of agriculture, the grain wedge was harvested by almost 95%, The output was 715 thousand tons with an average yield of 13.3 tons per hectare. Seeds are procured by 96% of the need.
Spring wheat is harvested on about 98% of the acreage. The average yield is about 13 quintals per hectare. Barley and oats are harvested by almost 100%, only a day or two are left. The average yield was 14 and 13.4 q/ ha, respectively. Ayagoz and Tarbagatay districts fully completed harvesting of cereals.
For today, farmers are finishing sowing of winter crops. About 19 thousand tons of seeds of 23 thousand tons of planned amount have already been sown into cold autumn soil.
We recall that in 2017 the harvested area of grain in the East Kazakhstan region is about 565 thousand hectares, in 2016 it exceeded 572 thousand hectares.
