Agriculture Ministry slams regional authorities for reporting false harvest figures

"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%.