Lamb in Kazakhstan has risen in price by 14.4% year on year.
The main reason for the increase in domestic prices for mutton, experts of the EnergyProm project, is the increase in the EXPORT of live cattle from Kazakhstan.
Most of all, by 22.6% per year, mutton has risen in price in Almaty. In June, in Almaty and West Kazakhstan regions, the average consumer price of a kilogram of this type of red MEAT amounted to 2.3 thousand tenge (400 rubles). At the same time, in shops and bazaars of Nur-Sultan and Almaty, 2.9 thousand tenge were paid per kilogram of beef, in Karaganda - 2.6 thousand tenge, in Uralsk and Petropavlovsk - 1.7 thousand tenge.
Now in Kazakhstan there is a ban on the export of breeding stock of sheep. The government does not exclude the introduction of a complete ban on the export of small cattle.
By the beginning of July, the number of sheep in Kazakhstan in Kazakhstan amounted to 22.9 million units: 11.8 million were kept by peasant farms, 9.9 million by farmers and individual entrepreneurs, and 1.2 million by agricultural enterprises.
The largest herd of sheep (5.5 million heads) was formed in the Turkestan region. it is followed by Almaty region with 4.3 million sheep (+4.7% yoy) and Zhambyl region with 3.4 million heads (+3.7%).