Kazakhstan: 300 thousand tons of new crop sugar beet are planned to be processed in the Zhambyl region

The areas of sugar beet grown in the Zhambyl region, one of the priority crops in the region, are growing annually, the Agrosektor.kz portal reports with reference to the press service of the regional Department of Agriculture. According to the head of the regional agricultural department Nurbi Dzhigitekov, 5.5 thousand hectares were sown with sugar beets in 2022. This year, this figure has grown to 10.4 thousand hectares. In general, 770.4 thousand hectares were allocated for agricultural crops in the Zhambyl region in 2023, which is 14.4 thousand hectares more than in 2022. More than 100 billion tenge is provided to support the agricultural sector of the Zhambyl region this year. And under the program of subsidizing the production of priority crops, 6.1 billion tenge of subsidies for sugar beets are provided. As Nurbi Dzhigitekov clarified, Zhambyl farmers plan to send 300,000 tons of sugar beets of the new crop for processing. “The supply of sugar beet seeds came from abroad, ...