ASTANA: Kazakhstan's grain exports fell to 579,600 tonnes between the beginning of this marketing year on July 1 and August 20 from 833,900 tonnes in the same period a year earlier, Agriculture Ministry data showed on Monday.

The exports included 296,400 tonnes of flour in grain equivalent versus 347,100 tonnes a year earlier.

Exports of grain from Kazakhstan, Central Asia's largest producer and exporter of the commodity, increased to 8.709 million tonnes in the 2013/14 marketing year from 7.023 tonnes in the previous season, the ministry said last month.