President to visit N Kazakhstan region
ROPAVLOVSK. August 21. KAZINFORM /Sergey Kuznetsov/ President Nursultan Nazarbayev is to pay a working visit to the North Kazakhstan oblast Friday. This is one of the largest grain-producing regions of Kazakhstan which has already started its harvesting campaign.
At present the region grows and process up to 13% of all agricultural products of the country. The gross agricultural output reached KZT 29.5 bln over seven months of 2009 here.
3.9 mln hectares of lands have been planted with grain crops this year. That is 200 thousand hectares more than the last year index. Despite bad weather conditions agrarians of the North Kazakhstan oblast expect to gather good wheat harvest due to up-to-date agricultural equipment and implementation of resource-saving technologies.
N. Nazarbayev's working visit will start from survey of grain and corn fields and course of grain harvesting in Taiynsha municipality.