Wholesale markets to be created in Kazakhstan based on example of Spain and France

AKIPRESS.COM - Minister of Trade and Integration of Kazakhstan Bakhyt Sultanov told about measures taken to stabilize prices for socially significant food products and the creation of wholesale distribution centers, the press service of the PM reported.
A lot of reasons affect the price stability of socially significant food products, including production volumes and insufficiency of certain products, import dependence of these products, he noted.
"Despite the fact that today the Minister of Agriculture said that we produce twice as much rice as we consume, there is still a dependence on rice imports. Since we consume some types of rice that we do not produce today due to climatic conditions. However, import dependency affects pricing. But the deficit is not in itself," the Minister said.
Also, price fluctuations are affected by the loss of producers during production, movement and various barriers to their delivery to consumers, in general, the lack of a complete effective system for distributing food and other goods through a wide network of intermediaries.
A special attention must be paid to the creation of wholesale distribution centers, according to him.
The Minister told about the example of Spain and France, representative countries in terms of wholesale food markets.
"We are carefully studying international experience. Just recently, I personally visited countries such as Spain and France, got acquainted with the systems of wholesale distribution centers. This is one of the big elements that affects prices. This was an interesting experience in these countries," Sultanov said.