Gross harvest of grain 2017 in net weight amounted to 20.6 million tons with a yield of 14.4 centners per hectare, reported the extended session of Government with the participation of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev.
It is also reported that in 2017, the crop area of agricultural crops was 21.9 million hectares, which is more than the level of 2016 by 416 thousand hectares. At the end of the year, agricultural producers purchased 368,400 tons of subsidized fertilizers.
The total amount for subsidizing seed production was 8.5 billion tenge (2.3 times more), which are fully developed. The volume of sown elite seeds amounted to 126 thousand tons - this is 5.2% of the total volume of sown seeds.
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