Published
12/04/2024, 15:27The main exporters of felled Christmas trees to Kazakhstan are Russia and Kyrgyzstan. This is reported by Monitoring Agency Energyprom.kz.
In the first nine months of this year, each of these countries sent just over 6,000 Christmas trees to Kazakhstan. However, Kazakhstani companies paid $15.9m to Russian suppliers, while Kyrgyz companies paid only $2.6m for the same volume of goods.
It should be noted that for 9 months of the current year Kyrgyzstan exported 1.1 tonnes of products for holidays, carnivals (coniferous trees fall under this code) with a total value of $11 thousand.
In March 2022, President Sadyr Zhaparov launched a national campaign ‘Jashyl Muras’ throughout Kyrgyzstan. Since then, Kyrgyzstan's forest area has grown to almost 6.3% of the country's total area.
Thus, the total forest area totalled 1.2 million hectares. Of these, the forests of the State Forest Fund - more than 797 thousand hectares, forests in specially protected natural areas - almost 137 thousand hectares.
It should be emphasised that cutting down forests in Kyrgyzstan is illegal and fines can reach KGS 100 thousand.
