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How much money is planned to be allocated to Kazakhstani farmers to subsidize sugar beet cultivation in 2025?

The Union of Potato and Vegetable Growers of the Republic of Kazakhstan, summing up the results of the outgoing year, noted an increase in the yield of tuber crops and their stable export, EastFruit reports. The new head of the Union, Baizhan Ualkhanov, told the APK Novosti agency about the results of the year and plans for the new season. According to him, potato growers of Kazakhstan are ending the year with a good harvest, unlike last year. In many regions, they managed to collect and store potatoes and main vegetables in the amount of about 1 million tons. “This volume allows us to maintain the wholesale price from the warehouses of producers at the level of 120-160 tenge, depending on logistics. Traditionally, stocks of potatoes and vegetables suitable for storage are concentrated in the Pavlodar, Kostanay, Karaganda and Akmola regions. We can expect with optimism that these reserves will allow the population to wait for early southern potatoes without any major price fluctuations,” our interlocutor noted. Read also: Banana business in Kazakhstan: in greenhouses with

The results of the sugar beet harvest were summed up at a meeting in the Government chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Serik Zhumangarin. With an average yield of 535.5 centners per hectare, about 1.3 million tons of sugar beet were harvested in Kazakhstan. As of December 20, Kazakhstan's sugar factories accepted 988.6 thousand tons of root crops for processing: Aksu Kant - 351.7 thousand tons (including 39.3 thousand tons from the Zhambyl region), Koksu Sugar Factory - 252.6 thousand tons, Merken Sugar Factory - 384.3 thousand tons. The rest of the harvest is in piles with farmers awaiting processing. Farmers, regardless of which plant the beets were delivered to, will receive subsidies in accordance with the current procedure, both from the akimats and from the sugar factories.