Kazakhstan greenhouse area exceeds 5 million square meters
Source: HD.com
Tomatoes and cucumbers accounted for most of the greenhouse area, covering 2.8 million and 2.1 million square meters respectively. Turkestan Region was the largest greenhouse production area, with almost 900,000 square meters planted with cucumbers and 1.2 million square meters with tomatoes.
Shymkent ranked second, with around 891,000 square meters of greenhouses, including 243,700 square meters for cucumbers and 647,200 square meters for tomatoes. Almaty Region ranked third, with 585,200 square meters of greenhouse area.
The region accounted for 12,000 square meters of the country's 23,300 square meters of greenhouse lemon production. Greenhouses produced 498,400 centners of vegetables in the second quarter.
Why this matters: For operators, this is a water-management story. The useful signal is that direct substrate measurements can help cut drain loss materially without giving up yield or fruit quality, which is exactly the kind of controllable efficiency gain a facility can build on.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does substrate sensing matter in free-drain strawberry systems?
Because drain percentage tells a grower what already happened, while substrate moisture and EC data show root-zone conditions directly. That makes it easier to cut water loss without guessing.
What is the operator takeaway from this trial?
If the thresholds are understood well enough, growers can reduce drain water materially while protecting yield and fruit quality, which makes sensing an operational tool instead of a reporting tool.
