Melon for cows: in the south of Kazakhstan they don’t know what to do with the unclaimed volume of melons

Published 2024년 8월 2일

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Melon growers in Kazakhstan's Turkestan region are facing challenges after increasing plantings following a high market price last year, resulting in a significant harvest that has now gone unsold. The region's yield is up to 270 tons per hectare, with a total harvest of 240,000 tons from 18,000 hectares and a forecast of over 500,000 tons. Due to the oversupply and unstable demand, growers are struggling to sell and have resorted to feeding the melons to livestock. The issue has been attributed to a lack of knowledge about the sales market and poor market management.

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In July, EastFruit posted a video from Uzbekistan, where watermelons are fed to livestock, and explained the reasons for the current situation. Now, Kazakhstan is reporting an unclaimed melon harvest. As APK News reports, melon growers in the Turkestan region are repeating the experience of cotton growers, when in one of the seasons the price of products increased significantly, and the following year they sowed much more hectares, hoping for a similar situation, but the market turned in the other direction, and cotton turned out to be unclaimed. Now a similar situation is happening in melon growing. In the akimat of the Maktaaral district of the Turkestan region, last year the price of melon was high; last season it was exported to Russia very well. Farmers earned quite well. This year they decided to increase the melon plantings, with the main focus on melons. The harvest turned out to be good; for example, in the Maktaaral region the yield is up to 270 c/ha. From an area of 18 ...

Source: Eastfruit