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October 26 Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev sent an address to agricultural workers of the country related Nursultan Nazarbayev made an address to agricultural workers of the country on the occasion of completion of the harvesting and a record grain harvest, Tengrinews.kz reports citing the President's press-service. Over 29 million tons of grain was delivered to the country's storages, including 24 million tons of wheat, the message states. “Harvest records of the Soviet time have been beaten,” the President notes. “Back then grain yield made 1540 kg per hectare and right now it is 1650 kg in Astana area, 2230 kg in North Kazakhstan oblast and 2020 kg per hectare in Kostanai oblast.” "The quality of 90 percent of wheat is class 1-3 as per the world standards. This allows Kazakhstan to maintain competitiveness in the world grain market,” the President's message reads. Nursultan Nazarbayev is sure that “this success is a result of dedicated work of Kazakhstan agricultural workers and coordinated state policy that has been aimed at supporting agricultural sector, a key industry of Kazakhstan's economy, during the years of independence”. "From the bottom of my heart I congratulate Kazakhstan's agricultural workers on the new victory! I wish them all well-being and prosperity!” the President says.
October 26 Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev sent an address to agricultural workers of the country related Nursultan Nazarbayev made an address to agricultural workers of the country on the occasion of completion of the harvesting and a record grain harvest, Tengrinews.kz reports citing the President's press-service.
Over 29 million tons of grain was delivered to the country's storages, including 24 million tons of wheat, the message states. “Harvest records of the Soviet time have been beaten,” the President notes. “Back then grain yield made 1540 kg per hectare and right now it is 1650 kg in Astana area, 2230 kg in North Kazakhstan oblast and 2020 kg per hectare in Kostanai oblast.”
"The quality of 90 percent of wheat is class 1-3 as per the world standards. This allows Kazakhstan to maintain competitiveness in the world grain market,” the President's message reads.
Nursultan Nazarbayev is sure that “this success is a result of dedicated work of Kazakhstan agricultural workers and coordinated state policy that has been aimed at supporting agricultural sector, a key industry of Kazakhstan's economy, during the years of independence”.
"From the bottom of my heart I congratulate Kazakhstan's agricultural workers on the new victory! I wish them all well-being and prosperity!” the President says.