There are more than 900 storage facilities for fruit and vegetable products in Kazakhstan

The Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan has considered a set of measures necessary to preserve the harvest and increase the production of fruit and vegetable products and stabilize prices for social food products, EastFruit reports. To organize effective storage in the country, a Comprehensive Plan for the construction and modernization of vegetable storage facilities is being implemented. According to the results of the inventory, there are 901 storage facilities in the country, of which 580 are vegetable storage facilities with a total capacity of 1.1 million tons, 257 are potato storage facilities (499.7 thousand tons), 67 fruit and vegetable storage facilities (136.3 thousand tons), the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan reports. “This year, storage facilities for 40 thousand tons were commissioned in the Mangistau region, 56 thousand tons in the Turkestan region, 20 thousand in the Pavlodar region, 4 thousand in the Kyzylorda ...