The condition of sunflower crops in Kazakhstan is mainly assessed as favorable and excellent, while the state of flax is considered favorable and acceptable. According to the Kazhydromet report in the second decade of August.
According to the report, during this period sunflowers in the fields of Abai, East Kazakhstan, and Pavlodar regions were at the flowering-ripening stage, and in the area of the Novoakhmirovo weather station in the East Kazakhstan region, they were at the ripening stage of harvesting. The condition of the plants was mainly favorable, and sometimes excellent.
In the south of the country (Turkestan region), heat-loving crops (soybeans, cotton) were ripening. Cotton was continuing its flowering stage, while soybeans were at the stage of finishing flowering and starting ripening. The condition of the plants was mainly favorable and excellent.
In the North Kazakhstan region, there were fields with cultivated oilseed flax, which was in the stage of early yellow ripeness. The condition of the plants was mainly favorable and acceptable.
In the second decade of August, southern regions of Kazakhstan (Almaty, Zhetysu regions) continued harvesting spring crops.
In the northern half of the country, the condition of spring wheat and barley was mainly favorable, sometimes acceptable.
In the West Kazakhstan, Karaganda, and Pavlodar regions, the harvest of spring grain crops began.
In the southeast, the harvesting of durum wheat continued.