Kazakhstan Increases Grain Exports to Afghanistan
Date
10/16/2021 11:13:24 PM
(MENAFN- Wadsam) Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Agriculture announces that it
intends to increase grain and flour exports to Afghanistan this year.
According to the Kazakh Ministry of Agriculture, seven to
eight million tons of grain and flour are exported annually from Kazakhstan to
various countries around the world. In 2020, the country exported more than two
million tons of grain and flour to Afghanistan.
The ministry also said that the current political situation
in Afghanistan has affected trade relations between the two countries and in
terms of payment, due to the suspension of money in Afghan banks, as well as
the provision of wagons carrying agricultural products and the return of this
Wagons have problems due to security concerns.
Kazakhstan's flour and grain exporters will continue to
cooperate with Afghan traders and in 2021-2022 will maintain their annual
exports to Afghanistan at the level of the past five years, despite the current
political situation in the country.
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