06.01.2026, 16:16
New Export Strategy of Prodcorporation: Distant Markets and Digital Transformation
Expansion into Persian Gulf markets and digital grain accounting as key growth drivers
Kazakhstan’s national grain operator intends to consolidate the export success of the previous season through a large-scale expansion into new sales markets and the modernization of domestic infrastructure. The key priorities for the current year include entering the markets of the Persian Gulf countries and implementing a digital grain accounting system.
Prodcorporation has outlined the main vectors of its foreign trade strategy for the upcoming season. The primary ambition of the national company is to access the markets of the Persian Gulf states. To achieve this goal, the operator is developing complex multimodal logistics schemes that enable the delivery of Kazakh wheat to distant export destinations.
At the same time, the development of transport corridors toward Southeast Asia continues. Strategic importance is also attached to routes via Iranian ports, which provide domestic grain with access to the Indian Ocean.
These ambitious plans are based on the strong performance of the 2024/25 marketing year. Prodcorporation confirmed its status as the country’s largest national supplier by selling 1.3 million tonnes of grain. This figure became the highest in the past ten years and exceeded the previous season’s volumes by four times. During the reporting period, the company’s export geography expanded to 12 countries.
In addition to export expansion, the company is focusing on internal structural changes. Priority areas include the modernization of elevator capacities and the expansion of support instruments for farmers, with a particular emphasis on small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises.
The implementation of IT solutions will become an important stage of development. Speaking at a conference marking the company’s 30th anniversary, Vice Minister of Agriculture Azat Sultanov noted that the corporation’s management has already begun the phased digitalization of key business processes.
According to the vice minister, the primary focus is on automating grain accounting and tracking its movement. The transition to digital systems is expected to ensure transparency of operations, improve the security of state grain resources, and bring interaction between the operator and agricultural producers to a qualitatively new level of efficiency.
