FAO/GIEWS - Foodcrops & Shortages 11/99 - KAZAKHSTAN (3 November)
With harvesting completed, the 1999 grain crop is officially estimated at 15.9 million tonnes, about 14.4 million tonnes cleaned weight, i.e. more than double the poor 1998 harvest officially put at 6.4 million tonnes. Overall growing conditions for the 1999 crop have been satisfactory and average yields approaching 1.3 tonnes per hectare are more than double last year's. In addition, unusually good weather during the harvest season has permitted harvesting activities to continue well into October, permitting the bulk of the 11.9 million hectares sown to be harvested. The country exported 2.5 million tonnes of cereals in 1998/99 and has an export availability of 7-8 million tonnes in the current marketing year. Grain shipments from the port of Aktau have been resumed.
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