In Kazakhstan, the area of infection by quarantine objects has been halved since 2018

Published Oct 26, 2021

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Kazakhstan has successfully reduced the area of infection with quarantine objects by half since 2018, according to Almabek Mars, Chairman of the Committee for State Inspection in the Agro-Industrial Complex. This achievement is credited to timely chemical treatments and effective quarantine measures. Despite these efforts, over 5,000 violations were found in 2021, leading to administrative fines totaling 392 million tenge and the suspension of product imports from certain countries. The country is now focusing on harmonizing its phytosanitary requirements with potential export markets, notably signing an agreement with China to export barley feed meal, as 338 Kazakhstani enterprises have been approved for export privileges to China out of a total of 664.

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NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - The area of infection with quarantine objects has been halved in Kazakhstan since 2018. This was announced by the Chairman of the Committee for State Inspection in the Agro-Industrial Complex of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan Almabek Mars at a briefing of the Central Communications Service, Kazinform correspondent reports. “This year, the spread of quarantine diseases, weeds and pests was predicted on an area of 65,200 hectares. Including: pests - 6 790 hectares; weeds - 57,000 hectares; diseases - in the area of 1,000 hectares. Chemical treatments were carried out in a timely manner, over the entire area. It should be noted that timely quarantine measures made it possible to reduce the area of infection by quarantine objects from 123,000 hectares in 2018 to 65,000 in 2021. As for the control and supervisory activities carried out by the State Inspection Committee. For the current period of 2021, during the quarantine ...

Source: Inform