NOVOCHERKASSKOYE: Kazakhstan, Central Asia's largest producer of rain, can export between 6 million and 8 million tonnes in the 2014/15 marketing year despite forecasts of a smaller grain harvest, a senior Agriculture Ministry official said on Wednesday.
"We see our export potential at between 6 million and 8 million tonnes," Saktash Khasenov, the ministry's chief inspector, told reporters during a visit to the Akmola region, part of Kazakhstan's northern "grain belt".
"We have a carryover of around 2.8 million tonnes of grain, and we have already threshed 1.2 million tonnes of a new harvest. So there is grain in the country," he said.
Kazakhstan's grain exports rose to 8.709 million tonnes in the 2013/14 marketing year from 7.023 million tonnes in the previous season.
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