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Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan agree on agriculture field roadmap co-op for 2019-2024

Business Materials 18 November 2019 13:20 (UTC +04:00)
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan agree on agriculture field roadmap co-op for 2019-2024

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 18

By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:

Ministers of agriculture of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan signed a roadmap for enhancing cooperation between countries in agriculture for 2019-2024, Trend reports with reference to the press office of Kazakhstan’s prime minister.

The signing took place within the framework of a visit of a delegation led by the Minister of Agriculture of Uzbekistan Zhamshid Khojaev to Kazakhstan, which was received by Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Askar Mamin.

“Thanks to the efforts of the First President of Kazakhstan – Nursultan Nazarbayev and the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev, cooperation between our countries has reached a qualitatively new level. Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev continues the course to further strengthen the strategic partnership with Uzbekistan,” Mamin said.

Mamin also noted the significant potential for increasing mutual deliveries of agricultural products, joint implementation of investment projects and access to the markets of third countries.

Following the end of the negotiations, the ministers of agriculture of the two countries signed a roadmap for enhancing cooperation between countries in the field of agriculture for the medium term.

The document oversees measures for cooperation development in 2019-2024 in areas of agricultural science, production, certification, trade, digitalization, veterinary medicine and animal husbandry, plant quarantine.

Trade turnover of agricultural products and processed agricultural products between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan amounted to about $770 million during nine months of 2019.

The main exports of Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan are wheat and meslin, wheat or wheat-rye flour, sunflower seeds, sugar, cattle, and wheat waste.

Uzbekistan mainly exports cherries and cherries, fresh grapes, apricots, tomatoes, peaches, persimmons, vegetables to Kazakhstan.

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