Sugar mills allocated 18.3 billion tg on turnover schemes

The progress of financing sugar mills on turnover schemes and the situation with the production of domestic sugar were discussed in the Government. To date, 18 regions have provided financing for the purchase and processing of raw sugar in the amount of 18.3 billion tenge, the World of NAN reports with reference to the Ministry of Trade.

"The plant Aksu Kant remained the last, but with the SIC Almaty already signed a contract worth 2.6 billion tg," - informed the Vice-Minister of Trade and Integration Arman Shakkaliev.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the total daily capacity of Kazakhstan sugar refineries is 8.7 thousand tons of sugar beet processing and 2.4 thousand tons of raw cane. In this case, the annual consumption of sugar in the country is 530-550 thousand tons, provision by domestic raw materials - less than 10%.

"In 2022, the provision of the domestic market with sugar from the processing of domestic raw materials was 51%, of which at the expense of beet sugar - 6% (33 thousand tons). This year, the plants plan to produce about 400-450 thousand tons of sugar, including 50 thousand tons of beet raw sugar, the rest - from raw cane sugar. For this purpose, Akimats of Zhambyl and Zhetysu regions are working to expand the sown area of sugar beet by 6.5 thousand hectares (from 11.6 tons to 18.1 tons), "- said Vice-Minister of Agriculture Yerbol Taszhurekov.

Along with that, to support the sugar industry, the Ministry of Agriculture increased subsidy rates for volumes of sugar beet delivered for processing from 15 to 25 thousand tg per ton.

In 2022 the work of the Aksu sugar refinery, located in Zhetysu, was suspended. Work is now underway at the plant to install a line for the processing of cane raw sugar with a capacity of 10 thousand tons per month. According to the Zhetysu Akimat, the plant has already purchased 3,000 tons of raw cane and the Aksu Kant LLP cane processing line is 98% ready.

Among the existing problems is the high cost of fuel oil, which affects the final cost of sugar. In his turn, the Vice-Minister of Energy Magzum Magauov informed that the price of fuel oil decreased to 100-130 tenge/kg from the major contractors. He confirmed the readiness of the owners of raw materials to conclude a contract at these prices.

As a result of the meeting, Minister of Trade and Integration Serik Zhumangarin instructed the akimat to ensure the launch of the Aksu sugar factory as soon as possible, and the Ministry of Energy to assist the sugar factory to conclude a contract for the supply of fuel oil with the producer.

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