The leader among importers for the month was China, the market which shipped a total of 11.6 thousand tons, or 25% of the total volume of oilseeds exported from Kazakhstan.

In the structure of exports in September, Flaxseed was 43% (19.8 thousand tons) shipments, sunflower - 20% (9.2 thousand tonnes).

Leaders among the buyers of Kazakhstan flax was Afghanistan and Belgium. The main volume of sunflower seeds Kazakhstan has set in Uzbekistan and China.

In addition, it is reported that this year in Kazakhstan, the area sown under oilseeds was increased by more than 20 percent to 2,482 million ha. In particular, sunflower planted 902,2 thousand hectares (+7%), flax - 869,7 thousand ha (+34%).

According to experts ' forecasts, the gross harvest of oilseeds in 2017 may reach 2.2 million tons.

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