From the next week landowners of Pavlodar oblast will get fuel by reduced price from PPCP for harvesting campaign

/INTERFAX-KAZAKHSTAN, Pavlodar, August 5, 05/ - From the next week agriculture producers of Pavlodar oblast of Kazakhstan (on the north) will get cheap fuel from Pavlodar petroleum chemical plant JSC (PPCP), destined to provide harvesting campaign. As oblast agriculture department informed on Friday to Interfax-Kazakhstan agency, it is planned to give landowners of the region for harvesting 20 th. fuel by KZT30.9 th. (current 135.45/$1) per tone. Market cost of fuel tone is KZT45-47 th. As it was informed, this week PPCP will resume operation in usual regime after planned two-month repair works. Department noted, this year agriculture sowing area in Pavlodar oblast is 971.8 th. hectares (102.4% to the level of 2004), including cereals sowings 588.9 th. hectares (102.1% correspondingly). By preliminary estimations, average cereals yield this year will be nearly 6 centners from hectare. According to information of the department, harvesting campaign will equip 1910 combines. This year in the frame of government leasing program oblast farms got 56 new combines. All 7 elevators are ready to accept grain of new harvest. In connection that Pavlodar oblast is in zone of risky agriculture, agriculture producers set goals to provide, first of all, own oblast's demands in grain, department reminded. In 2004 in the oblast 354.9 th. tons of grain were threshed. This year for realization of agriculture food program the oblast got KZT2.2 bn. In Pavlodar oblast live nearly 750 th. people. [2005-08-05]