National managing holding KazAgro (Kazakhstan) announces launch of new vegetables storage facility "Asar KZ" in Shymkent

24.10.13 16:33
/KASE, October 24, 13/ – National managing holding KazAgro (Astana), whose bonds are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), today provided KASE with the following information statement: quote A new industrial facility – vegetables storage facility "AsarKZ" with a total storage capacity of 5,600 tons of vegetables at a time (plus 600 tons of shock frozen vegetables) – was launched on the basis of South Kazakhstan's largest service and collecting complex "AsarKZ". The total cost of vegetables storage facility "AsarKZ" funded through KazAgroFinance – KZT489,259,000. The modern structure constructed in accordance with a Spanish technology (Vehiculos) has started accepting the harvest of vegetables from South Kazakhstan, as well as produce from the industrial greenhouse "Asar KZ", with an area of 2 Ha and an annual output of 352 tons of vegetables and 5,000,000 pieces of sprouts a year. It is worth noting that overall 17 vegetables storage facilities with a capacity of 91,187 tons of vegetables a year were funded and commissioned through KazAgroFinance under the investment program "Creation and modernization of vegetables storage facilities". 4 major vegetables storage facilities worth more than KZT1,438 m are supposed to be commissioned in 2013 across the country, with the total storage capacity of 13,600 tons of vegetables a year. unquote The full version of the press-release is available on KASE website, at: - http://www.kase.kz/files/emitters/KZAG/kzag_reliz_211013_1kz.pdf – in Kazakh; - http://www.kase.kz/files/emitters/KZAG/kzag_reliz_211013_1.pdf – in Russian. [2013-10-24]