Kazakhstan’s digital platform Agromarket.asia has brought together 515 participants in Central Asia’s agricultural market. More than 2,600 listings to buy and sell agricultural products have been posted, according to the press service of Tañba, the Unified Operator for Product Labeling and Traceability.
Four deals totaling more than one billion tenge have already been concluded through the platform. The project is intended to simplify cross-border agricultural trade by bringing counterparty searches, logistics, paperwork and payments into a single digital environment.
How Agromarket.asia works
The platform connects producers, buyers, transport companies and warehouse owners. Companies can post offers to buy and sell grain, vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy products and other agricultural goods.
The service is designed to go beyond classified listings. It provides electronic document workflows, logistics services and banking services to support a transaction from finding a partner to settlement.
According to Inkar Khusainova, a department director at the Center for the Development of the Digital Economy LLP, the project aims to help businesses find reliable buyers and suppliers in neighboring countries, arrange deliveries and handle documents on one platform.
Four deals exceeded one billion tenge
Khusainova discussed the platform’s initial results at the international TechnoWomen forum held on September 19, 2026, in Nukus, in the Republic of Karakalpakstan. The event brought together business, technology and education representatives from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
During the panel “Exports Without Borders: New Opportunities for Central Asian Business,” organizers reported that four Agromarket.asia transactions had exceeded one billion tenge in total. The average size of these contracts was not disclosed.
The figure of 515 participants indicates the size of the registered community but does not reveal how many sellers and buyers are regularly active. Likewise, the 2,600 listings measure posted offers rather than completed transactions.
Freedom Bank to introduce escrow accounts
Kazakhstani platform users can already access Freedom Bank services. Settlement through escrow accounts for transactions between participants in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan is planned to launch by the end of September.
Under this arrangement, the buyer’s money is held in a special account and released to the seller once agreed conditions are met. The mechanism could reduce the risks of working with a new counterparty in another country, although specific terms and service fees have not yet been published.
Plans to expand into Uzbekistan
The Agromarket.asia team is negotiating with potential partners in Uzbekistan. It aims to bring local producers, buyers and service providers onto the platform and subsequently increase cross-border trade in the region.
For agricultural businesses, entering neighboring markets is often complicated by counterparty checks, differences in paperwork, transport searches and secure settlement. A single platform could reduce the number of separate intermediaries, but its practical impact will depend on active participation, the quality of company verification and integration of financial and logistics services.
Who is developing the project
Agromarket.asia is being implemented jointly with Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Trade and Integration with support from the Eurasian Development Bank. The project is building digital infrastructure for domestic and cross-border agricultural trade.
The platform’s next important metric will be growth in completed transactions as well as registrations and listings. Its documented result so far is four contracts worth more than one billion tenge and participation from several Central Asian countries.
