Autumn Vegetable Fair, control over the trade mark-up and accounting of storage capacity

Vegetable fairs will be held in the southern regions to form the country's stabilization funds for the upcoming off-season and winter.

These and other measures taken to stabilize the prices of basic foodstuffs during the active harvesting campaign were considered at a meeting in the government chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Serik Zhumangarin every Saturday.

As the chairman of the Trade Committee of the Ministry of Trade and Integration Aidar Abildabekov informed, an onion fair is scheduled for September 14 in Zhambyl region. All regions and major retail chains are invited.

«While the price of onions is low, the regions need to take an active part and contract the necessary volumes», - Abildabekov stressed.

The Chairman of the Trade Committee informed about the work of the department on the analysis of pricing chains for socially significant food products of the manufacturer to the retail shelves through electronic invoices (EI).

«Since the beginning of the year, an analysis of 814 chains has been carried out, risks of exceeding the trade premium have been established for 146 facts. In some regions, an abnormal increase in prices for eggs of the first category has been recorded. We conducted a detailed analysis of the EI for 5 producers, identified the risks of violation of the trade mark-up from the wholesaler «Vorobyov А.А.» LLP, which purchased eggs from a poultry farm and another wholesaler, and then sold them to individuals and legal entities with a trade mark-up of 35% to 131%. Another wholesaler of «DOSAUTO KZ» LLP purchased eggs from the producer of Adel Kus LLP and sold them to individuals with a trade premium of 71%», — the head of the committee said.

Separately, we considered the price situation for rice. With the general dynamics of the decline in prices for SSFP over the past week by 0.1%, the cost of rice increased by 1.1%. According to Vice-Minister of Agriculture Yerbol Taszhurekov, currently, despite the rice fair held in June this year in Kyzylorda, only 4 regions (Akmola, Shymkent, Kostanay and Turkestan regions) have contracted stocks of this cereal in full from the needs of their population for three months. In the anti-leaders - East Kazakhstan Region (9% of the need), West Kazakhstan region – 22%, Aktobe – 36%.

The meeting also discussed the situation with regard to private vegetable storages in the country, which will allow to qualitatively improve statistics and analysis of the situation with the provision of vegetables to the country.

Following the meeting, Serik Zhumangarin instructed the Bureau of National Statistics to work with akimats to register all vegetable storage facilities, regions to strengthen work on the formation of necessary stocks of basic foodstuffs to ensure stable prices.