Kazakh wheat exporters to have difficulties due to increasing of grain harvests in Russia and Ukraine
In the reporting year, Kazakh wheat exporters will have difficulties due to increasing of grain harvests in Russia and Ukraine, declared Akulbek Kurishbaev, the Minister of Agriculture, on August 16.
Russia says it will ban grain exports for the rest of the year after a severe drought destroyed 20 percent of its wheat crop.Russia is among the world's largest exporters, and fears that it would cut exports had already helped drive up wheat prices by nearly 70 percent since early June.