Bakhyt Sultanov: work on expanding the trade infrastructure will continue

On July 26, 2022, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Trade and Integration of the Republic of Kazakhstan Bakhyt Sultanov, speaking at the site of the Central Communications Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, reported on the development of the National Commodity Distribution System.

It is noted that currently there are 9 ORCS in the country, 1171 vegetable storage warehouses created by private business. Their capacity is 3.5 million tons.

"Our task is to establish work on their effective use and build an integral trade and logistics infrastructure from the manufacturer to the retail. This will be ensured by creating a unified information system.The unified system will allow to promptly solve the issues of internal product flows between regions, eliminate the excess of goods in some areas and the deficit in other areas. It will also allow legalizing today's shadow turnover and, due to the transparency of the movement of goods, among other things, it will reduce the risks of price jumps," Bakhyt Sultanov said.

Thus, modernization, construction of vegetable storages and provision of storage of fruit and vegetable products will be carried out by agricultural producers themselves as part of this work, the report says.

In the future, work on the expansion and creation of a modern trading infrastructure will continue. Investors will be attracted for large projects, including the development of border regions.