Production and Marketing of Tea and Coffee in Kazakhstan in the first half of 2017

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From January to July, Kazakhstan produced 10080 tons of tea and coffee, an increase of 1.8 percent over the same period last year. Among them, Almaty is the main producing area, producing and processing 8377 tons of tea and coffee, accounting for 83.1 percent of the country's total output, with large tea merchants such as Tea House, while Almaty produces 1164 tons, accounting for 11.5 percent of the country's total output. According to statistics in August, the average price of tea was 2900 tenge / kg ($8.7kg), up 15.9 per cent from a year earlier. In the first half of the year, 70.8 per cent of tea and coffee demand depended on imports, totaling 21590 tons, an increase of 19.5 per cent over the same period last year. The domestic sales of tea and coffee were 28940 tons, an increase of 14.8 percent over the same period last year, with a per capita consumption of 1.6kg. In the first half of the year, tea imports totaled 17220 tons, up 17.2 percent over the same period last year. Total imports totaled US $62.76 million, up 15.8 percent over the same period last year. The main importers were Kenya, India and Russia.