The Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan has not received a letter from the Russian Federation with a request to suspend melon supplies

Published 2024년 10월 8일

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The Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan has refuted claims by Russia's Rosselkhoznadzor that it had failed to halt the issuance of phytosanitary certificates for melons due to the detection of the melon fly. The Kazakh ministry confirmed to TASS that no such requests had been received. They also highlighted that the melon harvest season has already ended. This statement comes after Rosselkhoznadzor's announcement seeking a suspension for various agricultural products from Kazakhstan to Russia, due to repeated findings of quarantine objects, including the melon fly, in these commodities.

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The Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan stated that it had not received letters from Rosselkhoznadzor asking to suspend the issuance of phytosanitary certificates for melons from October 7. "To date, Rosselkhoznadzor has not received letters asking to suspend the issuance of phytosanitary certificates for melons. We also inform you that the harvest season for Kazakh melons has already passed," the ministry's press service told TASS. On October 4, Rosselkhoznadzor informed that it had contacted the State Inspection Committee in the Agro-Industrial Complex of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan with a request to suspend the issuance of phytosanitary certificates for Kazakh melons exported to the Russian Federation from October 7. The agency justified this by "repeated detection" of a quarantine object - the melon fly - in Kazakh melons received in Russia. Earlier, Rosselkhoznadzor approached the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan with a proposal to suspend the issuance of ...

Source: Kvedomosti