Individual farms also have large regional variations in size, from 1 782 hectares in Mangistau to 29 hectares in South Kazakhstan and 95 hectares in Almaty oblast. In sum, the regional variations indicate that where economies of scale are more pronounced, farms are larger and agricultural enterprises more prevalent. Where economies of scale are less strong, e.g. in cotton and in the mixed farming of the southeast, individual farms have become the norm (Annex Table 1.A.10 and 1.A.11).