Kazakh farmers intend to double the sugar beet harvest to 1.1 million tons

This year, Kazakhstan is forecasting a sugar beet harvest of 1.1 million tons. In 2023, the gross harvest of this crop was 509 thousand tons. As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture, for farmers in the Zhambyl region, where a sugar beet harvest of 550 thousand tons was obtained for the first time, the issue of marketing and processing raw materials is especially acute. In this regard, the Minister of Agriculture Aidarbek Saparov met with sugar beet farmers, inspected the crops, and listened to the farmers' problematic issues. The head of the Ministry of Agriculture also visited Merkensky Sakhar LLP, which has been actively preparing for launch since the beginning of September. According to the agreements reached, the enterprise should process most of the new sugar beet harvest. It was decided that the remaining volumes will be shipped to the Aksu Kant plant. For this, the region will prepare a railway siding in Taraz with a loading platform. FOR REFERENCE: ...