5 Dec 2011 16:07

Kazakhstan harvested 26 ml tonnes of grain in net weight this year - Food Corp

ASTANA. Dec 5 (Interfax) - This year's grain harvest has weighed in at 26 million tonnes in net weight, said Sabit Kashkimbayev, the director of the department for grain resources management of Food Corporation, Kazakhstan's operator of grain purchase for the state reserves.

"This year's harvest has reached 26 million tonnes of grain in net weight," he told journalists in Astana on Monday.

As reported, in 2011 Kazakhstan gathered a record 29.7 million tonnes of grain in bunker weight, more than double 2010's 13.8 million tonnes.