For 10 years, the trends of changes in wheat planted areas in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan significantly vary from each other, declared the Chairman at Atameken-Agro JSC, Kintal Islamov during his speech at the conference KazGrain 2018 in Astana, on March 16.
In particular, in the reporting period in Russia the general planted areas under wheat increased by 14% – 24.38 mln ha in 2007, to 27.89 mln ha in 2017. In Ukraine, the planted area also increased, but much less – down 1% only, from 6.29 mln ha, to 6.36 mln ha, said the speaker.
As for Kazakhstan, the upward trend started developing in the beginning of the reporting period only, while the maximum rate was recorded in 2009 – 14.75 mln ha. In the following years, the planted areas under Kazakh wheat gradually declined, and in 2017 they totaled 11.98 mln ha, as opposed to 12.89 mln ha in 2007. In many ways, the reporting dynamics developed, due to changes in the general structure of planted areas, caused by the country's policy of diversification, and increasing of the cultivation areas of pulses and oilseed crops, said K.Islamov.
Also, he added that for 10 recent years, the yield figures of Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh wheat demonstrated the same dynamics.
The most dynamic growth of yield was fixed in Ukraine – from 2.34 t/ha in 2007, to 4.11 t/ha in 2017. As for Russia, the growth rates were slightly less – from 2.1 t/ha, to 3.12 t/ha. At the same time, last year in Kazakhstan the average yield of wheat totaled 1.24 t/ha, against 1.3 t/ha in 2007, informed the expert.
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