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Kazakhstan reduced exports of meat and meat products

  • 6 Nov 13:02

From January through August 2020, Kazakhstan exported 17 thousand Mt of meat and meat products valued at $38.4 million. This is 1.7% down against the same period of 2019. The decline in exports is caused by reduction of lamb supply by 69.6% and sausage products by 62.8%, as well as by 12.7% of meat stuffed pasta. At the same time, beef exports were 122.1% up, canned meat -14.9% up, pork exports grew by 4.2%. Over the first eight months of 2020, Kazakhstan exported 6.1 thousand Mt of beef valued at $20.6 million to: Uzbekistan ($11.4 million), Russia ($5.1 million) and China ($3.9 million). Lamb exports amounted to 68 Mt for $2.7 million: to the UAE ($1.5. Read more...

HPAI Mortality Increased In Kazakhstan

  • 26 Oct 11:17

The mortality from highly pathogenic avian influenza in Kazakhstan’s poultry has risen to 870,000. Yesterday, government officials released figures showing that between September 22 and October 19, the mortality had risen to 26,500 in backyard poultry and 847,000 in industrial poultry on three farms. The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that the above mortality makes up about 2% of the country’s poultry population. Following this outbreak, regulations banning the entry and exit of poultry products and other health protocols have been enforced, and more than 4.5 million doses of vaccine have been considered to control the. Read more...

Kazakhstan: the "meat project" of Uzbekistan was cited as an example

  • 8 Oct 09:33

Experts note the significant growth of the industry due to loans and benefits of the state.Since 2017, Uzbekistan has been implementing the project "Development of the livestock sector," which is designed for six years - from 2017 to 2022. The country's financial partners were IBRD and the International Development Association, which provided loans of $30 million and $120 million for 25 years, respectively. The contribution of Uzbekistan itself is about $78 million: half in the form of financial funds, half in the form of tax and customs benefits. A distinctive feature of the meat livestock development program was that state support in the form of. Read more...

Avian flu is heading to Europe

  • 6 Oct 10:14

Russia and Kazakhstan have been already hit by an influenza wave due do wild birds migration route to Europe. In the last couple of weeks, Russia and Kazakhstan have been confronted with several outbreaks of bird flu in both wild and domestic birds as the autumn migration in wild birds is crossing their territories. EU officials have warned poultry producers to step up surveillance against possible outbreaks of avian flu among wild and domestic birds. "EU countries are being urged to step up surveillance and biosafety measures to protect themselves against possible new outbreaks of bird flu this year," a report issued this week said. The disease is highly. Read more...

Kazakhstan reports bird flu outbreaks near Russian border - OIE

  • 24 Sep 11:29

Northern Kazakhstan reported seven outbreaks of avian influenza, said the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) on Thursday. According toReuters, Kazakhstan reported seven outbreaks of highly pathogenic bird flu in backyards and villages in the northern part of the country near the Russian border, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Thursday. The outbreaks killed a total of 1,763 birds and involved the H5 serotype, the OIE said, citing the Kazakh agriculture ministry. According to theOIE documentation, the source of the outbreak or origin of infection was "contact with wild species." The local measures. Read more...

More premium beef will be produced in Kazakhstan

  • 22 Sep 10:56

Kazakh agency LS has published materials on its website about prospects of growing of premium beef production in KazakhstanLS. According to the LS agency and information received from the fund of private capital funds Kazyna Capital Management (KKM), which provides capital to companies in various sectors of the economy in order to further competitiveness benefits and competitive recovery, Almaty region of Kazakhstan will produce up to 1 thousand Mt of premium beef, starting from 2021 and further increase production capacity to 2.5 thousand Mt per year. Last year, foreign investor Baumann GmbH & Co. KG and meat cluster “Kazmyaso” through the affiliated fund. Read more...

Investors changed their decision to invest $ 30 million in a meat processing plant in Kazakhstan

  • 21 Sep 10:14

According to information from the LS agency website with reference to Kazakh Invest, foreign investors have changed their decision to build a $ 30 million beef production and processing plant in the Kostanay region. Foreign investors represented by the Canadian company Sure Good Foods and the Latvian holding Bridge have expressed their decision to refuse to build the plant after studying the market and the potential of the project. In particular, LS reports that the conducted market analysis revealed economic inexpediency in preliminary pre-project calculations and concentration of labor and financial resources. The implementation of the project for the construction of a. Read more...

In January-August, Kazakhstan increased the agricultural production by 4.9%

  • 14 Sep 10:42

For the first 8 months of 2020, the gross output of products and services of the agricultural, forestry and fishery industries in Kazakhstan totaled 2.419 tln KZT, an increase of 4.9% compared with the same period last year, reported the Statistics Committee at the Ministry of National Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KazStat). As a reminder, in January-July of 2020 the growth rates was estimated at 2.5%. In particular, in January-August agricultural products traditionally formed the major volumes of production — 2.4 tln KZT, including plant growing commodities — 762.3 bln KZT, and animal commodities — 1.635 tln KZT. According to the. Read more...

Stavropol region to export mutton to Armenia and Kazakhstan

  • 21 Aug 10:45

During the working trip the Minister of Agriculture of the Territory Vladimir Sitnikov and the head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Directorate Viktor Fetisov held a meeting with representatives of the slaughterhouses of the Levokumsky and Neftekumsky regions. The main issues were the sale of mutton and the search for new export channels. Stavropol region produces 13 thousand tons of the product. The volume of supplies abroad is one thousand tons. This is done by 11 slaughter points. The meat is sent to Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the countries of the customs union. The Ministry of Agriculture noted that the capacity of the domestic market does not allow selling products. Read more...

Russia building new seaport to boost trade with Iran, India & Kazakhstan

  • 4 Aug 15:58

A seaport with a capacity of 12.5 million tons will be constructed in Russia’s Kalmykia region, near the city of Lagan. It will connect the operating ports of Iran, India, and Kazakhstan with Russia. The new port will consist of 32 off-loading terminals and other facilities, such as elevators with a capacity of 300,000 tons of simultaneous storage for grain crops, as well as terminals for storing and shipping vegetable oils, fruits, vegetables, and other goods.The grain and container terminals will have the capacity of five million tons each, while the liquid cargo terminal will have a capacity of 500,000 tons. Container transportation is one of the promising. Read more...