The return of the regulator: Kazakhstan’s cotton sector reforms since independence

Figures & data

Figure 1. Area sown to cotton and cotton yield in South Kazakhstan, 1950–2015.

Source: Statistical Yearbook 50 Years Start of the Virgin Lands Campaign (1953–2002); Azhimetova (2011); data tables published at www.stat.gov.kz. Data between 1960 and 1980 at five-year intervals.

Figure 2. Comparison of world and Kazakhstani farm-gate cotton prices. Source: Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan; National Cotton Council of America.

Figure 3. Schematic representation of the cotton supply chain before and after the 2007 legislation.

Source: the authors, based on Sadler (2006, 102).

Figure 4. Physical output of agriculture in total and cotton in particular in Kazakhstan, 1990 = 100.

Source: the authors, based on data tables published at www.stat.gov.kz.

Figure 5. Kazakhstani cotton area and cotton exports and cotton world market price (2007 = 100).

Source: Agency of Statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan; UN Comtrade (2015) and Cotton Outlook (2015).

Figure 6. Structure of government support of the cotton sector (KZT billions).

Source: Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan (unpublished); OECD (2017).

Table 1. The 2016 amendment of Article 15 of the cotton law.

Version 2007–2015	Version 2016
‘Cotton processing organizations shall be prohibited to carry out an entrepreneurial activity, not related to the activity of rendering of services on warehouse activity with issuance of cotton receipts, as well as to issue a guarantee and use their property as collateral under obligations to third parties.’	‘It is forbidden to alienate basic assets without which providing warehouse services becomes completely impossible or significantly deteriorates, as well as to issue guarantees and (or) use assets as collateral under the obligations to third parties.’

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