Kazakh farmers suffer losses due to export duty on sunflower

In Kazakhstan, prices for sunflower oil have decreased over the year. Sounds like great news. But not everything is so simple. As it turned out, farmers found themselves in a difficult situation. They cannot sell sunflower on the domestic market. Why don’t Kazakh oil processing enterprises buy raw materials? Externally, everything is fine in the industry. Prices for sunflower oil decreased by 18% over the year. But here it turns out that farmers have a problem with selling their products. Farmers cannot sell sunflowers not only on the domestic market, but also abroad. It's all about the export duty. For every ton of products sold, the farmer must return 50 thousand tenge to the state. And factories buy a ton of sunflower at the price of grain - 130 thousand tenge per ton. The export duty on the export of sunflower puts farmers at a disadvantage, according to the Union of Field Growers of Kazakhstan. As of January 1 of this year, over 1 million tons of sunflower had accumulated in ...