Kazakh Statistics Authority data showed that the country’s wheat flour exports to Afghanistan increased by about 1.05 million tons, for 8 months from 2022/2023, an increase of 28% year on year.
The data showed that Kazakhstan exported about 130 thousand tons of wheat flour in April 2023, the highest figure in the past four months, which was 114.4 thousand tons in April 2022.
According to the data, the three largest importers included Kazakh, Uzbekistan and Tajik flour, but the volume of shipments in these trends was several times lower than their exports to Afghanistan, where Afghanistan remains the largest importer of Kazakh flour.