500 thousand tons of grain to be transported from northern parts of Kazakhstan

500 thousand tons of grain will be transported from northern oblasts to western and southern regions, Tengrinews.kz reports. This is a way to free up elevators for the new harvest. “According to weather forecasts, Kazakhstan will have a rainy fall this year, that is why elevators will be working at full capacity. This will complicate acceptance of the new harvest. 1.7 billion tenge ($11.6 million) have been allocated from the budget to solve this problem and move 500 thousand tons of grain from grain-harvesting regions to no-grain ones,” chairman of the board of Food Contracted Corporation National Company Beibitkhan Kabdrakhmanov said today, August 26. Food Corporation is planning to sell 1 million tons of grain from the last year’s harvest in the nearest time.