Kazhydromet Rates Sunflower Crop Conditions as Good and Excellent in Five Regions of Kazakhstan

Sunflower crops in five regions of Kazakhstan have reached harvest maturity. According to Kazhydromet, during the third ten-day period of September, crop conditions in the Abai, East Kazakhstan, Kostanay, Akmola and Pavlodar regions were assessed as good and excellent.

According to the ten-day agrometeorological report, sunflower harvesting began in the Bulandy district of Akmola Region, the Irtysh and Terenkol districts of Pavlodar Region, as well as the Samar, Shemonaikha and Glubokoye districts of East Kazakhstan Region.

Kazhydromet also reported that during this period, harvesting of spring grain crops was nearing completion in the main grain-producing areas of northern Kazakhstan.

In Almaty Region, near the Zhalanash weather station in Kegen district, winter wheat had reached the third-leaf development stage by the end of the third ten-day period of September.

In Zhetysu Region, near the Sarkand weather station in Sarkand district, agricultural producers began sowing winter wheat at the end of the reporting period.

In southern and southeastern Kazakhstan, soybean crop conditions were predominantly assessed as good and excellent.

In addition, sugar beet harvesting began in the Aksu district of Zhetysu Region, near the Kyzyltu weather station.

According to agrometeorological observations, productive soil moisture reserves in the half-meter and one-meter soil layers across the western, northern, central, eastern, southeastern and southern regions of the country were generally at optimal and satisfactory levels.

At the same time, insufficient moisture was recorded in the upper cultivated soil layer.