Farmers harvest grain in a farm in Turgen village, Akmola Region, Kazakhstan, Sept. 9, 2020. Kazakh Agriculture Minister Saparkhan Omarov said Wednesday that the harvesting of 11.1 million hectares of grain and beans, or over 70 percent of total sown land, has been completed, preceding last year's season remarkably. (Photo by Kalizhan Ospanov/Xinhua)

Kazakhstan's agricultural exports to China reached 489,000 tons, or 196 million U.S. dollars, in the first half of this year (H1), up by 15 percent year on year, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday.

According to the ministry, 274,000 tons of crop products and 2,000 tons of livestock products were exported to China, up by 11 percent and 25 percent respectively.

A total of 576 Kazakh enterprises have been granted permission to supply their agricultural products to China, among which 90 companies export livestock products and 486 export crop products, the ministry said.

The Kazakh government has pledged to boost its production and export of agricultural products in recent years. In the first eight months of this year, the country's agricultural output reached 2.4 trillion tenge (about 5.66 billion dollars), up by 4.9 percent year on year.