Tajikistan now provides the bulk of Kazakhstan’s onion imports accounting for more than 50 percent of the overall volume of onions delivered to Kazakhstan over the first nine months of this year.
According to EastFruit, Tajikistan has supplied 75,000 tons of onions to Kazakhstan over the first nine months of this year.
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan have reportedly supplied a total of 146,000 tons onions to Kazakhstan over the same nine-month period. Tajikistan and Uzbekistan now together accounts for 99 percent of the overall volume of onions delivered to Kazakhstan over the report period.
Meanwhile, onion exports from Tajikistan to the Russian Federation are small. According to data from Russia’s Committee for Statistics, only 259 tons of onions have been exported from Tajikistan to Russia over the past year.
Currently, China provides the bulk of Russia’s onion imports (63 percent), being followed by Egypt (11 percent).
According to statistical data from the Ministry of Agriculture of Tajikistan, Tajikistan has produced 512,644 tons of onions over the first eleven months of this year.
Tajik Minister of Agriculture, Izatullo Sattori, says Tajikistan is able to increase annual onion exports to 100,000 tons.
Experts propose to sell onion surplus to the European countries.
According to estimates of EastFruit analysts, prices for one kilogram of onions in Poland have risen to 0.37 U.S. dollars and export of onions from Tajikistan and other Central Asian nations to Poland becomes quite attractive.
Current average price for one kilogram of high-quality onions in Central Asia’s countries is reportedly 0.10 U.S. dollar. If onions are delivered by rail, travel expenses will be not more than 0.15-0.17 cent per kilogram and exporters will receive profit at the rate of 10 cents per kilogram or 6,000 U.S. dollars per car.
