Kazakhstan rice growers risk being left with nothing

08.06.2022

Rice production in Kazakhstan is becoming increasingly unprofitable. Meanwhile, rice takes the third place in the menu of Kazakhstanis after bread and meat. However, the lack of subsidies, the impossibility of technical improvement and other problems put the industry in an unenviable position.

Gulzada Dzhambayeva and Lyazzat Alshembayeva, senior researchers at...