Agriculture Ministry slams regional authorities for reporting false harvest figures
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Ministry of Agriculture has found the data coming from the local executive bodies on grain harvesting and images from space different.
"We have the space monitoring program for harvested areas. Therefore, according to space monitoring, there is a difference between operational reports given by the local executive bodies and the images taken from space. The difference, in general, is somewhere 10-12% on average in the country. 12% - is about 2 million ha," said the Chairman of the State Inspectorate in the agricultural sector of the Ministry of Agriculture Saktash Khasenov at a briefing in Central Communications Service. According to his words, Kazakhstan on average has harvested 13.1 million ha which accounts for 87.5%.