Forecast of grain corn yield announced in Kazakhstan

Kazhydromet has published a preliminary forecast for the grain corn yield. The figures in many regions are above the long-term average. According to the data presented, the grain corn yield in 2025 is forecast: The department explained that the reserves of productive moisture are taken into account as 80% of the lowest field moisture capacity (optimal), that is, provided that the plants in the fields receive the vegetative irrigation norm of water. If the norms and timing of vegetation irrigation are not observed, then a shortfall in the harvest compared to the forecast is possible. “This year, corn sowing in the Turkestan region began in the first ten days of April. In the Almaty, Zhetysu and Zhambyl regions in the first ten days of May. The first shoots began to appear from the second ten days of April to the second ten days of May. In the corn growing areas in the south and southeast, the air temperature was 4…6°C above normal, precipitation was generally less than normal,” ...