Kazakhstan took the third position in Asia by the areas of organic farming, which exceeded 300 thousand ha, the Deputy Director of strategic planning and analysis department at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan Timur Nurashev declared. According to him, the general exports of organic products from Kazakhstan totaled nearly $10 million.…
By 2021 Kazakhstan plans to have put 610 thousand ha of irrigated farmland into circulation, the Chairman of the Committee for water resources at the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan Islam Abishev declared. In the nearest 5 years Kazakhstan plans to restore the irrigation systems of regular irrigated agricultural areas throughout the areas of 610…
Kazakhstan’s huge oil field Kashagan was officially presented on December 7, Kazakh Energy Ministry said. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev took part in the event. Oil production at Kashagan was launched in autumn and reached commercial level of 75,000 barrels per day on November 1. Currently work is carried out in order to increase the level…
JSC National Company Food Contract Corporation announced the increase of the purchasing prices for 3- and 4-grade wheat Triticum aestivum L., the company’s press-service reported. In particular, the prices for 3-grade wheat, purchased to the commercial resources of the company, increased from 41`500-50`000 KZT/ton to 49`000-58`000 KZT/ton for VAT taxpayers (depending on the qualitative indicator),…
Kazakh wheat exports continued expanding in October. Kazakhstan exported 452.8 KMT of wheat in the second month of the season, up by 40% YoY. In the first two months of 2016/2017, Kazakhstan exported 38.7% more wheat YoY (808 KMT), which is a three-year high. The share of Kazakh wheat’s key export destinations – Uzbekistan, Tajikistan,…
Kazakhstan plans to found the agribusiness export center, which will realize the promotion of domestic agricultural products on foreign markets, the press-service of the Ministry of Agriculture declared. The center will be formed on the basis of JSC National Company Food Contract Corporation within frames of the State program for development of the agro-industrial complex…
Kazakhstan’s total crop of grain after conditioning reached 21.5 MMT, agriculture vice-minister Gulmira Isayeva said. In addition, she said, the nation was going to export 9 MMT of grain. With regard to the outlet markets, according to her, they are the traditional ones: Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Russia, Iran and China. “Together with the Kazakh Railways we…