ASTANA, Kazakhstan, August 24. By August 22, 2025, harvesting in Kazakhstan has extended to 15 regions. The southern areas are nearing completion, with Shymkent’s harvest already fully collected, Trend reports via the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan.
According to information, 1.7 million hectares of grain crops have already been harvested, which accounts for 10.7 percent of the total area, yielding 2.4 million tons of grain.
More than 300,000 pieces of equipment are involved in the harvesting operations: 139,000 tractors, 31,000 grain harvesters, 17,000 reapers, and 130,000 units of other machinery.
"A schedule for allocating regions to refineries for the shipment of diesel fuel has been approved jointly with the Ministry of Energy. Thanks to this, agricultural producers are receiving diesel fuel at 254 tenge per liter ($0.54), which is 18–20 percent below market price. As of now, 135.400 tons of fuel have been delivered," the statement reads.
Farmers have been supplied with 89 percent of the planned amount of mineral fertilizers, with a total of 1.7 million tons delivered. Work is ongoing. An additional 43.3 thousand tons of fertilizers are in storage.
By order of the President of Kazakhstan, in 2024, a program for early financing of sowing and harvesting campaigns was launched for the first time. Today, financing for farmers continues:
Under the preferential lending program, 7,594 applications have
been submitted for 502.7 billion tenge (approx. $1.07 billion);
Under the “Preferential Leasing” program, contracts totaling 153.4
billion tenge (approx. $326.4 million) have been signed;
The “Damu” Fund has issued 1,312 guarantees totaling 228 billion tenge (approx. $485.1 million).
To ensure the safety of the harvested crops, ongoing monitoring is being conducted to prepare grain elevators for receiving the new harvest.
According to data from regional akimats, the total grain storage capacity in the country is 30.7 million tons, including 13.3 million tons at operating licensed grain receiving enterprises (GREs) and 17.4 million tons at agricultural producers' facilities.
This storage capacity is sufficient to store the harvested crop, including carryover stocks from previous years. Licensed grain storage facilities are currently filled with 2.2 million tons or 16 percent of capacity. There is no shortage of space at elevators or grain storage facilities.The progress of the 2025 harvesting campaign is under constant government supervision.
