Kazakhstan: Barley harvest may be 16% higher this year

Gross barley harvest in Kazakhstan this year may be 16% higher than last year and reach 3.25 mln tonnes. This forecast was announced during the international conference Chinese Grains&Oils Congress in Shanghai by Daulet Uvashev, director of Harvest Kazakhstan.

He specified that the growth of barley harvest is expected primarily due to an increase in crop yield by 18% to 13 centners per ha. At the same time, barley planted areas are expected to decrease slightly (by 2%, to 2.5 mln ha).

According to the expert, the export of this grain in the current season may reach 1.5 mln tonnes (+15% compared to the previous season).

At the same time, in 6 months of 2023/24 MY (September-February), Kazakhstan has already exported about 700 thousand tonnes of barley. China ranks first in the ranking of the top importers of the product - the country supplied about 535 thousand tonnes of Kazakh barley.

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