Government raises grain purchase prices

/IRBIS, Dec.15, 00/ - The Great Silk Road World News Agency informs that under the program for the state-purchase of grain from the harvest 2000, and to stabilize the domestic grain market and support agricultural producers, the Kazakh government supported proposal by the Food Contract Corporation to raise the purchasing price for soft sorts of wheat not lower than the 3rd class to $100 per ton. This is not the first measure taken by the government to support rural producers. The primary purchasing price in 2000 stood at $70- 75 per ton, and was then raised to $80-85. The amount to be purchased is set at 200,000 tons. This will be enough to satisfy the mill-plant demand and provide the internal market with bread.