The first international conference Qazaq Organiс Food was held in Kazakhstan

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APK-Inform

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The global organic farming has the enormous potential, and Kazakhstan can become one of the largest countries-producers of organic products in Central Asia. Nevertheless, the uncertainty of Kazakh agrarians in high revenues, as well as the deficit of knowledge and experience in the production and sales of organic grains and oilseeds, became the major limiting factors in development of the industry segment.

Therefore, AgroIndustria KZ in cooperation with APK-Inform Agency, Organic Standard Ltd, and Agroecology PE, organized the first international conference in Kazakhstan «Qazaq Organic Food: new opportunities & new markets" , which was held on November 29 in Astana (Kazakhstan).

The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan Atameken, and the United Nations Development Programme provided its official support to the event.

More than 100 delegates from 12 countries visited the event! In particular, skilled companies-producers and exporters of organic products from Kazakhstan andUkraine already confirmed their participation in the conference, as well as the large-scale importers from Germany (Imarti Naturkost, Saatenberg Handels & Consulting), Switzerland (Field Farms Marketing), the Netherlands (DF International B.V.), China (Yihai Kerry, International Trading Co., Ltd.), the Czech Republic (AGRIWELL), Poland (VELES AGRO LTD), and other countries.

One of the major German companies-importers of organic products — IMARTI Naturkost GmbH&Co.KG , became the Sponsor of the event.The company focuses on the production and selling of agricultural products, as well as processes the products at its own enterprises. IMARTIsells all types of ecologically friendly agricultural products, and covers the market of the EU, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the USA.

The main topics of the conference covered features of the requirements to the production of organic agricultural products; certification of organic goods production; moving from the intensive to organic farming; major machinery for the tillage weed control; organic project for the Kazakh market; organic trading and exports, etc.

The Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan, Asylzhan Mamytbekov made the welcoming speech at the official opening of the conference. According to him, active involvement of various international certification bodies plays the important role in development of organic crops production in Kazakhstan. Therefore, the Ministry of Agriculture and Organic Standard Ltd reached the agreement on foundation of the representative office of the company in the territory of Kazakhstan, which can lead to reduction of the costs of provided certification services. The speaker noted that the public regulation should become harmonized with the international requirements, and form taking into account the focus on the top-priority sales markets, because the export potential of Kazakhstan is closely related to the production of environmentally friendly products.

Also, the Director of "Center of competence" LLC at the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Atameken", Arsen Kerimbekov reported about the general trends in development of the organic agriculture in Kazakhstan, as well as presented the umbrella brand "Qazaq Organic Food” .

During the first conference session the General Manager at Organic Standard Ltd. , Sergiy Galashevskyy reported about the requirements for the production and certification of organic agricultural products.

Within frames of the second session , the Head of the Department of the economics of organic farming at Kazakhstan Research Institute for the Economy of the Agro-Industrial Complex and Development of Rural Territories, Vladimir Grygoruk , the Director of VIP Group LLC, Co-founder of the Scientific and Production Association “Institute of Organic Production”, Consultant on agronomic technologies and organic production, Alexey Kachkovskyy , the Chief agronomist of PE “BTU-Center”, Alexandr Rostotsky , the Director of Organic Syntez Ltd., Vitaly Logov , paid attention to the current problems of farmers conversion to organic farming, as well as using of innovative certified products and biological crop protection products in organic farming.

During the third session , the СЕО at the largest enterprise in Ukraine PE Agroecology, Gleb Lukyanenko and the Chief agronomist at PE Agroecology, Sergei Kozin shared the experience of one the largest Ukrainian enterprises — PE Agroecology — in the production of organic products. In turn, representatives of the companies-traders, who are already working on the market of Kazakhstan, reported about their interests, which can simplify the further decision-making by Kazakh agrarians in the issues how and who to sell the products.

In turn, the conference participants managed to receive more detailed information about the experience of producers and buyers of organic grains and oilseeds, get acquainted with modern technological solutions for the organic farming, and get the best advices from the major experts on possible risks for newcoming producers.


 

Full list of speakers you can find  on the conference page of Qazaq Organis Food and get more information about main trends in organic production in Kazakhstan from the news.

 

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