Kyrgyzstan to bring gross corn harvest to 1 million tons by 2030

The Ministry of Water Resources, Agriculture and Processing Industry and the Association of Corn Growers of the Kyrgyz Republic signed a memorandum of cooperation. As reported by the department, the purpose of the signed memorandum is to carry out work agreed by the parties to ensure food security in the country. The Association of Corn Growers of the Kyrgyz Republic undertakes to increase the gross harvest of corn grain to 1 million tons by 2026-2030, and the production of succulent feed from corn and sorghum to 2 million tons. These indicators will be achieved through the use of intensive technologies, without expanding the cultivated area, that is, to obtain 1 million tons of corn grain from 100 thousand hectares, with an average yield of 10 tons per hectare and 50 tons of green mass for harvesting succulent feed from an area of 40 thousand hectares of corn and sorghum. In the past two years, the Association has been introducing the universal (for grain, hay, silage) sorghum ...