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Kazakhstan announces wheat, flour volume allowed for export

Business Materials 3 April 2020 14:48 (UTC +04:00)
Kazakhstan announces wheat, flour volume allowed for export

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr. 3

By Nargiz Sadikhova – Trend:

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Agriculture announced volume of wheat and flour permitted for export in Apr, 2020, Trend reports with reference to the ministry.

The ministry said that 200,000 tons of wheat and 70,000 tons of flour can be exported from the country this month.

“At the same time traders must supply 30 percent of the exported volume to the local market by set prices. A ton of 3 and 4 class wheat for the local market must be sold for 84,000-86,000 tenge ($187-196),” the report said.

In turn, flour must be sold for 120,000 tenge ($268) per ton in Akmola, North Kazakhstan, Kostanay, Pavlodar, East Kazakhstan, Karaganda regions and Nur-Sultan cities, and for 130,000 tenge ($290) in other Kazakh region and cities of republican importance.

Applications for export quotas are accepted until 18:00 (GMT +6) on April 3, 2020 and must be sent in PDF format to the email addresses of the following authorized organizations:

- for wheat export:

Grain Union of Kazakhstan, e-mail [email protected]

Head of Grain Union: Nurlan Ospanov, phone +7 777 618 4618

- for flour export:

Grain Processors of Kazakhstan Union, e-mail [email protected]

Head of the Union Evgeny Gan, phone +7 701 511 9005; leading specialist Alexandra Zhestovskaya, phone +7 701 514 5875

On Mar. 24, 2020 Kazakhstan introduced restrictions on export of agricultural goods for the period of emergency state regime in the country, however then the decision to allow export quotas has been made.

The latest data said that the total number of coronavirus infected in Kazakhstan is 453 people, including 199 in Nur-Sultan, 93 in Almaty and 11 in Shymkent.

First two cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Kazakhstan among those who arrived in Almaty city from Germany on March 13, 2020.

On March 15, 2020, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym Jomart Tokayev signed a decree introducing an emergency state in Kazakhstan due to the coronavirus outbreak, which came in force from 08:00 (GMT +6) on March 16 and will last till 08:00 April 15, 2020.

By a decision of State Commission on Provision of Emergency State under the president of Kazakhstan, quarantine regime has been introduced in Kazakhstan’s Nur-Sultan and Almaty cities at 00:00 (GMT +6) on March 19, 2020.

The outbreak of the coronavirus began in the Chinese city of Wuhan (an international transport hub), at a fish market in late December 2019. The number of people killed by the disease has surpassed 53,000. Over a million people have been confirmed as infected. Meanwhile, over 211,000 people have reportedly recovered.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11. Some sources claim the coronavirus outbreak started as early as November 2019.

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