Kazakh farmers refuse to sow wheat

Published May 19, 2025

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Kazakhstan's grain belt is experiencing extreme weather conditions, with the east and center facing drought and the north experiencing rain. Despite the challenges, Timur Visitaev's farm in Veselovka has successfully completed sowing 9,000 hectares of crops, including sunflower, rapeseed, peas, oats, wheat, and barley, earlier than usual due to a favorable winter and spring. However, the early sowing has led to increased pathogen activity, damaging winter wheat. Despite the higher costs, corn has high profitability and good yield. The farm has shifted its focus from wheat to oilseeds due to their higher profitability, and has found success with malting barley. The farm and many other farms in the region are struggling with market demand and prices for their crops and are calling for more government support.

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Farmers themselves like to joke that it is difficult to please them with the weather: rain is bad, drought is even worse. And this year, nature seems to have divided the grain belt of Kazakhstan into two parts with diametrically opposed conditions: in the east and in the center, already now, in May, there is heat above 30 degrees and dryness, and in the north it is cool and rainy. And what is characteristic, farmers are unhappy both there and here: the east complains about the rapid loss of moisture by the soil, the north - about the delay in sowing. Conclusion? There needs to be a golden mean in everything. But, unfortunately, it does not exist in Kazakhstan - such is the sharply continental climate. Pros and cons of early sowing On the third day of the AgroCaravan Sowing 2025, the ElDala.kz team arrived in the East Kazakhstan region. First of all, we went to the village of Veselovka, where the Visitaev R.D. farm, headed by Timur Visitaev, operates. Here they sow almost 9 ...

Source: Oilworld