00:00Grazie a tutti.
00:30Welcome to East-West Connect.
00:31We're highlighting business and economic opportunities in Kazakhstan and the wider Central Asian region, connecting with Europe and beyond.
00:38With oil seed processing capacity at 5 million tons per year, Kazakhstan ranks among the top three suppliers of sunflower
00:46meal to the EU and the world's top 10 exporters of sunflower oil.
00:50It produced 890,000 tons of vegetable oil last year, up 17% from 2024.
00:56The country is also the EU's second largest supplier of durum wheat and already processes 5 million tons of grain
01:03annually.
01:04By 2028, it plans to add 6 million tons of deep grain processing capacity, focusing on higher value products such
01:12as amino acids, syrups and vitamins.
01:14For more on the country's food processing ambitions, we spoke to Kazakhstan's vice minister of agriculture, Yrbol Tashjurekov.
01:23We've signed a number of ROSS, a number of products that are in the US, a number of products that
01:48are in the US.
01:48направлены именно как раз таки на переработку продукции агропромышленного комплекса.
01:53На сегодняшний день у нас сформирован конкретный пайплайн инвестиционных проектов,
01:57которые мы отслеживаем, мониторим вместе с инвесторами, вместе с регионами,
02:02где установлено четкие сроки.
02:04Те производственные мощности, которые мы запланировали,
02:06они вполне нам обеспечат повышение в целом доли переработки продукции АПК
02:12и ее последующего экспорта.
02:24Мы повышаем ежегодно, смотрим те требования, которые предъявляются к нашей экспортируемой продукции.
02:31Буквально в прошлом году мы закупили порядка 7 лучших исследовательских лабораторных оборудований,
02:38которые были аккредитованы со странами Европейского Союза.
02:41Если раньше у нас была возможность проверять нашу экспортируемую,
02:45в том числе импортируемую продукцию на 7 компонентов,
02:48то сейчас мы можем нашу продукцию проверять уже по 72 компонентам.
02:52То есть это достаточно широкий и тщательный контроль к нашей производительной продукции.
02:57И в этой связи на сегодняшний день уже есть у нас согласованные сертификаты
03:04и разрешения по поставке, к примеру, проработанности Европейским Союзом.
03:07Это мед, это рыба.
03:10В том числе сейчас готовится пакет уже соглашений по экспорту нашего казахстанского мяса.
03:15Mr. Tajurekov, thanks for being with us today.
03:17Thank you.
03:20Elsewhere in the sector, the dairy industry processes about 2.7 million tons of milk annually,
03:26while meat processing enterprises produce 450,000 tons.
03:30Against that backdrop, one of the sector's leading companies is expanding its processing capacity.
03:38Kazakhstan's poultry experts are partly driven by the ITAS holding group,
03:43which plans to nearly quadruple total output to 350,000 tons by 2030.
03:49The group owns Central Asia's largest poultry farm, located in Kazakhstan's Akmola region.
03:54The Makinsk poultry complex produces 90,000 tons of meat per year
03:58and offers 80 products across the full value chain,
04:01from chilled meat to further processed and ready-to-cook items.
04:04If you look at the last year, Kazakhstan has exported only 31,000 tons of meat per year,
04:11but here the cost of our company is 11,000.
04:15If you say, who we sell, in which countries,
04:18then you can call it the Russian Federation,
04:20it's Kyrgyzstan, it's Tajikistan, it's Uzbekistan and it's Belarus.
04:24And now we work on the basis of expanding the market.
04:28We look at China and Central Asia.
04:31The Makinsk poultry farm was launched in 2015 with support from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
04:38and the Baitirek Venture Fund with a credit line from the Development Bank of Kazakhstan.
05:00As Kazakhstan rubs up production, the sector is increasingly focused on expanding capacity and boosting experts.
05:08To discuss financing for the sector and how this growth is being supported,
05:13we're joined by Marat Yulibayev, chairman of the board of the Development Bank of Kazakhstan.
05:20Mr. Yulibayev, thanks for joining us.
05:22Thank you, Bhutan Gosp for invitation.
05:24What are the main barriers to shifting from raw commodity exports to deep value
05:28and what conditions are still needed to accelerate the sector's development?
05:32Kazakhstan has abundant resources of land,
05:36so we have more than 200 million hectares of agricultural land
05:39and we have more than 25 million hectares of arable land.
05:44So we produce a lot of raw materials,
05:47but primarily grain, its oil products, not really processed products.
05:54So, just to give an example,
05:57in terms of grain production,
05:59last year we produced more than 25 million tonnes of grain,
06:02but only one-fifth had been processed in Kazakhstan.
06:06And if you talk about deep processing,
06:08it's only a few percentage percentage.
06:10So, we have a strong base of raw materials
06:14and the question mark how is it going to process and produce
06:17and to create more value, additional value products in Kazakhstan.
06:24And here is a very important point
06:26is to build new production facilities in Kazakhstan
06:30which is going to use those raw materials
06:33and create new products.
06:36If the food industry is to drive growth,
06:39what segments offer the strongest long-term financing potential
06:44and what DBK instruments are currently most in demand
06:47to modernize food production?
06:50We see a lot of potential there.
06:53We're talking about deep grain processing,
06:56production of biotanol, production of lisin,
07:00syrup, some dairy products,
07:02production of oil and fat ingredients, etc., etc.,
07:06where we see strong potential in Kazakhstan.
07:10Development Bank of Kazakhstan focuses on two main directions.
07:14The first one, I would say,
07:16we focus on developing new investment projects.
07:20So, it's long-term financing
07:21to create new production facilities in Kazakhstan.
07:25And second direction is export financing.
07:28So, when the export company,
07:31the local company want to export,
07:33they potentially could apply for us
07:35in terms of getting export financing
07:37in order to help them to sell their products abroad.
07:42Both directions, I would say,
07:44are having a strong interest from the entrepreneurs.
07:49Mr. Gelibayev, thanks so much for your time today.
07:51Thank you, Botagos.
07:54That's all for now.
07:55See you in the next episode of East West Connect.
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