In the International Center of Greenhouse Horticulture "World Horti Center" in the city of Naaldwijk, a Kazakhstan- Netherlands Investment Roundtable was held with the participation of officials and representatives of the business community, El.kz reports citing invest.gov.kz.
At the end of 2021, the Netherlands retained the status of the largest in the European Union and the second in the world (after the United States) exporter of agricultural products and food. This was told by the speakers from the Dutch side, acting. Mirjam Boekestijn, Directors of Dutch Greenhouse Delta and, Marco Hoffman, Deputy Secretary-General of the Naktuinbouw Phytosanitary Service. Niyaz Koshkimbayev, Managing Director of “Baiterek” NMH” JSC, and Azamat Aldiyarov, Managing Director of Kazakhstan Investment Development Fund spoke about financial instruments for business development in Kazakhstan.
The participants of the Investment Roundtable as part of the event visited the greenhouses of the World Horti Center and got acquainted with the stands, which provided information about the activities of Dutch companies that work in the field of water and energy-saving technologies, biosecurity and nutrition, IT and solutions based on artificial intelligence.
As a result of the roundtable, bilateral documents were signed between MJ Tech and the Union of Greenhouses of Kazakhstan on cooperation in implementing a project for the production of irrigation equipment, between Royal GD and the Republican Veterinary Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan and a tripartite Memorandum between Karaganda Agricultural Experimental Station LLP, "Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry" LLP and the Dutch "Royal Eijkelkamp".
In addition to the foregoing, the Kazakh delegation in the cities of Naaldwijk, Rotterdam, and The Hague held bilateral meetings with representatives of the local business community.
Thus, following the results of negotiations with the Management of the Investment Fund "Invest International" (finance) Els Hantijs, an agreement was reached on the formation of a National Pool of Investment Projects with the participation of Dutch companies for their further financing in terms of supporting export and project financing from the Government of the Netherlands.
There was also a meeting with the leadership of the Port of Rotterdam and familiarization with the port infrastructure. The Port of Rotterdam is by far the largest deep-water port in Europe and one of the ten largest ports in the world. Today, the volume of maritime traffic averages 460 million tons, the number of ships calling at the port of Rotterdam every year is 30 thousand only in the maritime sector and 105 thousand inland navigation vessels.
The program of the Kazakh delegation in the Netherlands ended with a meeting with the Deputy Secretary General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration Garth Schofield. Established in 1899, the PCA is an intergovernmental organization that provides the international community with a variety of dispute resolution services.
It should be noted that the organizers of the events from the Kazakh side were the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and KAZAKH INVEST, from the Dutch side World Horti Center and Dutch Greenhouse Delta.