Contrary to wheat or flour, barley exports from Kazakhstan started the new season at the slowest pace in the last three years. Kazakh exporters supplied 28.5 KMT of barley to foreign markets in September, down by 58.5% YoY (68.6 KMT). In the first month of the season Iran was still the biggest importer of barley…
Kazakh national gas transportation operator KazTransGas built a booster compressor station at the connection TIP-02 between the main gas pipeline “Bukhara gas-bearing region-Tashkent-Bishkek-Almaty” and “Kazakhstan-China”, the company said in a message. The new booster compressor station located in Zhambyl region will allow to have gas pumping between these pipelines, despite different design pressures. This is…
During 9 months of 2016 Kazakhstan supplied 1.6 million tons of flour to foreign markets, up by 36.2% YoY, the monitoring agency Energyprom.kz reported. In particular, Kazakhstan exported 40.8% of the general flour volumes to the CIS countries (654 thousand tons), including 80.3% of the volumes to Uzbekistan (525 thousand tons). Kazakhstan exported the remaining…
A huge greenhouse complex of 12 ha has been built in Kazakhstan, KazAgro National Holding reported. The official launch of the complex, the largest in the country, is scheduled for early December. The complex is located in the city of Almaty. The project was worth 6.6 billion tenges and was financed by KazAgro’s subsidiary KazAgroFinance.…
Kazakhstan started the new flour season of 2016/2017 with brisk exports. 177 KMT of flour was supplied to foreign markets in September, up by 18.6% YoY (149.2 KMT in September 2015). In addition, the September export volume is the largest for this month since 2010. The top importers of Kazakh flour remain the same neighboring…
According to the Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in October the production volumes of vegetable oils reached the record figures – 33.6 thousand tons. During two months of 2016/2017 MY the figure exceeded the production of vegetable oils in the same period last season by 30%. A significant increase in the production…
The export market of Kazakhstan saw growth of milling wheat prices last week. It was fueled by the following factors: reviving demand from key importers; consequent growth of Kazakh wheat exports by a third against 2015 early in the season; rising domestic prices for milling wheat in Kazakhstan against the background of volatility of the…