Kazakhstan grain exports down

Kazakhstan's grain exports in the first month of the marketing year which began on July 1 fell to 378,700 from 561,200 tonnes a year earlier, Agriculture Ministry data showed on Monday. The exports included 178,900 tonnes of flour in grain equivalent versus 226,100 tonnes a year earlier. Exports of grain from Kazakhstan, Central Asia's largest producer and exporter of the commodity, increased to 8.709 million tonnes in the 2013/14 marketing year from 7.023 tonnes in the previous season, the ministry said last month.