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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov says that his country has become a wheat-exporting nation, according to state media, amid reports that the local population is facing severe food shortages, RFE/RL's Turkmen Service reported. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan on March 14 inaugurated and officially opened Hil Standart’s Microbiology Laboratory, the first private sector food safety laboratory in Turkmenistan, the US Embassy in Ashgabat said in a press release. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Belarus has suggested implementing a joint project to set up a milk-processing enterprise in Kyrgyzstan, Belarusian BelTA news agency reported with reference to Aleksei Bogdanov, head of the Central Office for Foreign Economic Activities of the Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry, after the eighth session of the Belarus-Kyrgyzstan intergovernmental commission on trade and economic cooperation held in Bishkek on October 19. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Customers in Kazakhstan and neighbouring countries will benefit from a wider range of high-quality products manufactured and distributed by RG Brands, whose operations are supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Bank said. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A logistics centre has been opened in northern Kyrgyzstan’s Kemin district to aid in supplying local schools with fresh agricultural produce. An initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the centre should improve the quality of school meals and secure a sustainable market for local producers. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — With the assistance of Kazakh Invest National Company for Investment Support and Promotion, negotiations on the acquisition of the local instant noodles production plant Lotus in the Turkestan region of Kazakhstan were successfully concluded with Singapore’s transnational corporation CG Corp Global, Kazakh Invest said on September 7. Continue reading