As of May 1, Kazakhstan had 7.78 million tons of wheat, a 12% decrease from the previous year's 8.84 million tons, according to the Bureau of National Statistics. This total includes 5.5 million tons for food, 1.3 million tons for feed, and 993 thousand tons for seed. Additionally, the country had 1.23 million tons of barley, 18 thousand tons of rye, 100 thousand tons of oats, 121 thousand tons of corn, 15.5 thousand tons of millet, 128.7 thousand tons of rice, and 66 thousand tons of buckwheat. Overall, Kazakhstan had 9.62 million tons of grain and leguminous crops available at the beginning of May, down from 10.7 million tons the previous year.