Kazakhstan’s grain crop more than doubled this year to hit a record 26 million tonnes by clean weight, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency quoted the Central Asian nation’s state-owned grain trader as saying on Monday.
The vast steppe nation of 16.6 million people gathered 12.2 million tonnes of grain by clean weight in 2010, when the harvest was hit by a severe drought.
Sabit Kashkimbayev, in charge of managing grain resources at Kazakhstan’s Food Contract Corporation, said the gross grain crop was estimated at 30 million tonnes this year.
He said however that despite the sharply higher grain harvest Kazakhstan would probably not be able to export more than 10 million tonnes from the 2011 crop. “Our (grain export) potential is 15 million tonnes, taking into account our traditional markets, but we will not be able to export physically such a volume,” Novosti-Kazakhstan quoted Kashkimbayev as telling reporters.
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