China News Service, Nur-Sultan, September 16 According to a report from the Kazakhstan News Agency on the 16th, according to data released by the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan recently, Kazakhstan exported 489,000 tons of agricultural products to China in the first half of this year, and the export value was 196 million US dollars. Increase of 15%.
Up to now, there are a total of 576 Kazakhstan enterprises that have the qualifications to export agricultural products to China, of which 404 are guaranteed to export agricultural products to China by the inspection and quarantine department of Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan Agriculture Minister Omarov said last week that Kazakhstan will continue to expand exports of grain and flour to China.
Chinese Ambassador to Kazakhstan Zhang Xiao said in an earlier interview with the media that China and Kazakhstan are geographically close to each other and convenient transportation, which is conducive to tapping and realizing the huge potential of Kazakhstan’s agricultural exports to China, and “Kazakh agricultural products are considered in China. It is green, in great demand, and has the prospect of entering the Chinese market on a large scale."
Kazakhstan is rich in land resources. In 2020, the country’s crop planting area will be 22.7 million hectares, of which 15.8 million hectares of food crops will be planted.
Up to now, more than 60% of the autumn harvest has been completed, and the grain output this year is expected to be 18 million tons.
Since the emergence of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the government of Kazakhstan has been committed to building agricultural exports as a new economic growth point.
According to data released by the National Statistics Committee of Kazakhstan, from January to August 2020, the total agricultural output value of Kazakhstan was 2.4189 trillion tenge (1 US dollar equals 410 tenge), a year-on-year increase of 4.9%.
Among them, the output value of animal husbandry was 1.6347 trillion tenge, an increase of 2.7%; the output value of planting industry was 762.3 billion tenge, an increase of 10.7%.
Recently, the proposal of the Ministry of Trade of Kazakhstan to build a multi-functional agricultural product and food wholesale distribution center complex in Kazakhstan has received government support.
According to the analysis of the Central Asia News Network, the construction of high-level modern storage and transportation infrastructure by the Kazakh government is conducive to the stability of domestic grain prices and will also create favorable conditions for expanding grain exports.
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