In 2017, the general harvest of grains in Kazakhstan in clean weight totaled 20.6 mln tonnes with the average yield at 1.44 t/ha, announced the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan on February 9.
It was noted that the volume of planted elite seeds totaled 126 thsd tonnes, or 5.2% of the general volumes of planted seeds.
Also, in 2017 the planted areas under agricultural crops reached 21.9 mln ha, up 416 thsd ha compared with 2016.