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Kazakhstan’s peasants prefer soy growing
05.12.2003 «Agro Perspectiva» (Kyiv) — New direction of food industry, i.e. soy products output, has recently received a reliable resource base, due to soy growing not only by Alma-Ata region agrarians, yet also, for first time this year, by South-Kazakhstan and Kizil-Orda regions’ farmers. As of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Agriculture, soy total resources are up 30% against last year, in spite of drop in soy output due to cold summer. As to Piotr Potapov, Open Joint Stock Company «VITA» Managing Director, next year Zhambyl region agrarians, as well as agrarians of Talass region and a number of other Kyrgyzstan’s regions, will change over to new crop, due to soy growing being much more profitable as compared with traditional crops. Company pays 36 Tenges per 1kg soy, thrice up as of initial soy seeds’ cost. Thus, soy assures income US$200600/ha. Similar incomes can be brought only by sugar-beet growing, yet sugar-beet is too manual labour intensive. As to Company’s Director, even with this year record wheat crop and low soy crop, soy proved much more profitable; Company provides starting soy-growers with financial loans, agricultural and technological know-how, specific fertilizers and elite seeds, what guarantees 3.0t/ha soy output. As P.Potapov assures, though peasant have to pay off these services with their future crop, they will in any case remain with good profit, thus making any agitating campaign for new crop unnecessary.
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