ASTANA, Kazakhstan, November 10. Kazakhstan has doubled its exports of agricultural products over the past five years, which reached $6 billion, Trend reports.
This was stated during the plenary session of the 19th Forum of Interregional Cooperation between Kazakhstan and Russia.
The volume of gross agricultural output has also doubled.
Kazakhstan's agricultural products are supplied to 80 countries around the world. Kazakhstan ranked 32-nd out of 113 countries in the 2022 Global Food Security Index. Thus, Kazakhstan is consistently developing the agro-industrial sector.
In addition, Kazakhstan and Russia are the largest producers of agricultural products and are among the top ten world leaders in grain exports. The two states account for almost 10 percent of arable land and 9 percent of pastures and hay lands worldwide.
The volume of gross agricultural output in Kazakhstan increased by 3.2 percent in the first half of 2023 and amounted to 2.1 trillion tenge (about $4.4 billion)
The growth was achieved mainly due to a 3.3 percent increase in livestock production volumes. Meat production increased by 4.5 percent (1 million tons in live weight) and milk by 2.9 percent (3.2 million tons).
In 2022, the volume of gross agricultural production increased by 9.1 percent and amounted to 9.3 trillion tenge (about $19.5 billion). This happened due to an increase in crop production by 15 percent.
Favorable weather conditions made it possible to carry out the harvesting campaign without downtime and harvest one of the best grain harvests in the last 10 years, which reached 22.8 million tons.