Kazakhs are better beer drinkers than KyrgyzsKazakhstan residents drink 4 times more beer than Kyrgyzs. Kyrgyzstan residents drank 49.8 million liters of beer in 2010, which is 47 percent of the total volume of alcohol consumption.
Kazakhstan raises grain harvest estimatesAccording to President Nazarbayev, a total of $1.2 billion was earmarked out of the state budget to support the agriculture sector this year.