Agricultural exports from Kazakhstan in 2024 amounted to $5.1 billion. At the same time, growth in physical terms is estimated at 3.9% - up to 16.1 million tons. The main exported goods include wheat, meslin, barley, flax seeds, beef, lamb, frozen fish, wheat flour, sunflower oil, carbonated water, cotton fiber and others. This was announced by Vice Minister of Agriculture Yerbol Taszhurekov at a meeting on expanding agricultural exports.
Over the past five years, the volume of exports of Kazakhstan's agricultural products has increased by 51%. The geography of exports covers 66 countries, while the share of processed products was 52%. Among the main sales markets are the countries of Central Asia, the EAEU, Iran, Turkey, China and the EU.
In 2024, the total volume of exports of Kazakhstan's grain amounted to 8.1 million tons. In September 2024 – 18 days of March 2025, 6.3 million tons of new-crop grain were exported to Central Asian countries (Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan), China, Afghanistan and in the direction of Europe (an increase of 53%). Including 741 thousand tons were shipped to Iran during the same period (an increase of 17 times), and 408 thousand tons to Azerbaijan. The Ministry of Agriculture noted that these are the highest volumes of Kazakh grain supplies to Azerbaijan over the past five years - for the same period last season, from September 2023 to February 2024, grain transportation in this direction amounted to only 4 thousand tons.
The volume of processed product exports increased by 14.9%, amounting to $2.7 billion, while the share of processed products in total exports increased from 42% to 52%.
To promote plant products, Kazakhstan has concluded Agreements on Cooperation in the Field of Quarantine and Plant Protection with Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, China and the CIS countries. More than 2.4 thousand Kazakhstani enterprises that supply safflower meal/cake, peas, lentils and rapeseed are registered in the Register of Exporters to China. In 2025, it is planned to open the Chinese market for beet pulp, in 2026 - for rice, mung bean, cotton. It is noted that already in the first half of this year, the launch of an agricultural quality inspection laboratory built in East Kazakhstan region by the Chinese side is expected, which will significantly simplify the export of Kazakhstani agricultural products to China. Following the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of National Economy Serik Zhumangarin instructed to strengthen cooperation with the Chinese side to accelerate work on lifting restrictions on export-import operations for a number of agricultural products and developing new export directions for the supply of Kazakh agricultural products.