North Kazakhstan region became a testing ground for aviation fuel from camelina.
While the world debates future jet fuel, the answer is already being grown in test fields near Petropavlovsk.
Kazakhstan agro-industrial complex
Horses go to China and Afghanistan, sheep to Uzbekistan. Kazakhstan increased livestock exports by 1.7 times.
Kazakhstan exported 717.2K head of livestock and poultry worth $7.9M in Jan–May 2026, up 1.7x year-on-year.
Kazakhstan ranks second in the world in chernozem reserves, and it has finally begun to be protected.
According to the FAO UN Global Soil Partnership map, Kazakhstan ranks second globally in chernozem area — about 108 million hectares.
84% of countries failed to meet commitments on environmentally harmful subsidies — Kazakhstan disclosed only part of its own
Of 134 countries submitting national reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), only 21 (16%) fully identified their harmful nature subsidies by the 2025 deadline.
Industrial hemp legalized in Kazakhstan, but cultivation is slow to take off
In 2026, Kazakhstan did not plant industrial hemp, so no harvest of this crop is expected in the country.
Agrarian miracle" or statistics? How NANOC invented "gross seed harvest
NANOC reported producing 60,000 tons of seeds worth over 12 billion tenge. The agency uses the term "gross seed harvest," but in agronomy, this does not exist — it is raw grain that loses up to 50% of its weight during cleaning.
Drought hits crops, Black Sea burns — Kazakh grain under double pressure
Drought in Kazakhstan’s key grain regions has cut harvest forecasts below last year’s records. Meanwhile, rising Black Sea tensions threaten to redirect Russian grain to Central Asian markets.