Kyrgyzstan is one of main suppliers of vegetables to other countries: Agriculture Ministry

Bishkek, May 13, 2022. /Kabar/. Kyrgyzstan is one of the main suppliers of vegetables to other countries, the Agriculture Ministry of the republic said. Representatives of the ministry visited the trade and logistics center of Kyrgyzcentroproduct LLC. The center is a vegetable storage facility with a capacity of more than 4 thousand tons, as well as a line for washing, calibration, sorting, packing vegetables and fruits, with the full use of equipment of Dutch production. "At the moment, the company successfully grows vegetables, stores, processes and exports to federal retail chains in Russia and Kazakhstan. It also provides year-round vegetables to the local Frunze and Globus chains," the report says. The volume of exports is more than 10 thousand tons of fruits and vegetables. In addition, the country's only industrial production of dried fruits and vegetables, products such as carrots, peppers, apples, beets, etc. has been operating on the basis of the logistics center since 2021. 100% of dried products are exported to countries of the Eurasian Economic Union. "The main buyers are canneries, processing plants and fast food producers. The company specializes in the purchase of agricultural products from farmers, their processing and further export to trading networks and canneries in more than 10 countries around the world," the report said. . The main products are beans, potatoes, carrots, onions, cabbage, beets, peppers, apricots, apples, nuts, apricots, prunes and so on. The products grown from more than 1 thousand farmers throughout the country are purchased annually, processed and exported from 7 to 10 thousand tons.