Kazakhstan bans feed exports to stop livestock deaths

The Kazakh government has called for urgent measures to protect the domestic feed market, introducing a complete ban on feed exports and caps on grain exports from15 August. The Kazakh Agriculture Ministry has been ordered to impose limits on grain exports. The restriction was introduced because the lack of feed has caused massive livestock deaths in the Mangistau and Kyzylorda regions in Kazakhstan over the past few months, the Ministry reported. In Mangistau oblast alone, the death count re