Kazakhstan: Nexia R3 presented

GM Uzbekistan presented an automobile Nexia R3 under the brand of Ravon in Kazakhstan. It is worth to mentioning that Nexia R3 is a modified Chevrolet Aveo of the second generation (T250). Nexia R3 is equipped with a gasoline engine with a volume of 1.5 liters. The power unit is paired with a five-speed manual…

Kazakhstan to launch new flights to Mongolia

Kazakhstan and Mongolia may launch new flights, PM Karim Massimov said. At the government’s meeting the PM tasked the Ministry of Investments and Development to consider the issue of launching Bayan-Olgii-Almaty and Bayan-Olgii-Ust-Kamenogorsk routes. The Ministry of Agriculture was entrusted with a task to consider an opportunity of delivering meat to Semipalatinsk Meat Processing Plant…

Kazakhstan: trade companies’ revenues up

Revenues of Kazakhstan’s trade companies from main activity increased up to 2.8 trillion Kazakh tenges in Q1 2016, as compared to 2.1 trillion tenges in the same period of 2015. Tenge’s devaluation gave a certain support to this process. Revenues of Kazakhstan’s small enterprises from main activity increased by 824 billion tenges in Q1 YoY,…

Kazakhstan: starting wheat yields quite high

Crops harvesting started in Baydibek District of South Kazakhstan region. Total planted area reaches 31.824 thousand ha. 6.6 KMT of wheat have been already harvested from 3.54 thousand ha of planted area with average yields at 1.86 MT/ha. Productivity is quite high in the region. Average wheat yields reached 1.14-1.15 MT/ha in the country. The…

Kazakhstan: barley exports down in May 2016

In May Kazakhstan exported 6.55 KMT of barley (6.32 KMT in May 2015), 5.8 KMT of which were shipped to Iran. During September-May of the 2015/2016 season barley exports from Kazakhstan reached 792 KMT which was significantly higher than shipments during the same period last season (+79%). During September-May of 2014/2015 MY 442.7 KMT of…