Russia: Rosselkhoznadzor asked to suspend the supply of potatoes from Kazakhstan
Fresh Common Potato
Kazakhstan
Russia
Published Mar 17, 2021
Tridge summary
The Rosselkhoznadzor sent a request to the Committee of the State Inspection of the Agro-Industrial Complex of the Republic of Kazakhstan to temporarily not issue certificates for the supply of potatoes to Russia. This was reported in the press service of the department. Recently, attempts to import sanitary products into Russia have been increasingly recorded. So, on March 3, in the Orenburg region, vehicles with 60 tons of German potatoes were found, transported under the guise of products from Kazakhstan.
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“In order to prevent the supply of sanctioned products to Russia, the Rosselkhoznadzor appealed to the State Inspection Committee in the agro-industrial complex of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan with a request to suspend the issuance of phytosanitary certificates for ware potatoes intended for export to the Russian Federation,” the Rosselkhoznadzor press service reported. The ministry stressed that the resumption of supplies will be possible after the phytosanitary certification system in the Republic of Kazakhstan is brought to international standards. They will also investigate all of these cases and provide full information about this to the Rosselkhoznadzor. Last year, the head of the department, Sergei Dankvert, proposed to ...
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