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Kazakhstan plans to increase the area under sugar beet to 25 thousand hectares

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Kazakhstan
Published Feb 10, 2023

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The situation that arose last year in Kazakhstan with sugar exposed the problems of the domestic sugar industry as a whole. Self-sufficiency in sugar in the country was only 40%. Kanat Zhauymbayev, Director of the Department of Agri-Food Markets and Processing of Agricultural Products of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, spoke about this during a round table at the CCS site. According to him, the Government has adopted a comprehensive plan for the development of the sugar industry, which consists of 33 points.

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For a number of them, the MOA plans to discuss with experts in order to develop the necessary measures. “As part of the comprehensive plan, measures are envisaged, in particular, to increase the area under crops. It is planned that by 2024 the area under sugar beet will be increased to 25 thousand hectares. This year, an increase is planned from 10.1 thousand to 16.1 thousand hectares. Measures have been taken to reduce VAT. In particular, when importing sugar cane, zero import duties are provided for this year. Now we plan to bring this issue to the EEC meeting. Standards and subsidies for the delivery of sugar beet to sugar refineries were carried away from 15 to 25 tenge. per kg. The Roadmap provides for measures to finance sugar factories ...
Source: Agrosektor
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