In September overview, US Agricultural Department increased the forecast for wheat production in Kazakhstan in the new agricultural year (July 2016 - June 2017) by 10% - to 16.5 mln tons with previously expected 15 mln tons (August overview), Interfax-Ukraine reports.
The assessment of Kazakhstan’s wheat export increased by 6.3% - to 8.5 mln tons.
The wheat import forecast was retained at 60 ths tons.
In 2016/2017 agricultural year, the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan forecasts the wheat export production to 8.5 mln tons with previously expected 8 mln tons. In 2015/2016 agricultural year, Kazakhstan increased export by 27% - to 8.4 mln tons.