2 Million-Ton Corn Drying and Storage Complex Commissioned in Kyzylorda Region, Kazakhstan

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On November 10, a corn drying and storage complex was put into operation in the Syrdarya district of Kyzylorda Region, Kazakhstan. As the first phase of the investment project of the Kyzylorda starch syrup plant, the facility has a simultaneous storage capacity of 20,000 tons of corn, and the drying system has a daily processing capacity of 1,200 tons. The total investment of the entire project is 40 billion tenge, with a construction land area of 35 hectares. A corn deep-processing plant will be built subsequently to produce starch, syrup and other products.

The first phase includes supporting facilities for corn procurement, quality testing, drying and storage, including weighbridges for transport vehicles, a grain quality testing laboratory, a raw material receiving point, drying equipment and storage facilities. After farmers deliver harvested corn to the plant, it first undergoes weighing and quality inspection, then enters the receiving and drying stages, and the processed corn is stored in warehouses. The entire process concentrates grain procurement, quality control and post-harvest handling at a single site.

Equipment supply adopts a combination of international procurement and engineering technology. The project's main equipment and engineering technology come from Turkey, and the corn drying equipment comes from France. The drying system can process up to 1,200 tons of grain per day, and the warehouse can simultaneously hold 20,000 tons of corn. The project operator stated that if the volume delivered by local farmers exceeds the current storage capacity of the warehouse, the company can continue to receive additional grain and handle more raw materials through subsequent turnover arrangements.

The second phase is planned to build a corn deep-processing plant to process raw materials into starch, syrup and other products. According to information disclosed by the project manager, after the plant is fully operational, it is expected to process about 150,000 tons of corn raw materials per year and produce about 20 types of products. Thus, the project will extend from grain procurement, drying and storage in the first phase to industrial processing in the second phase.

Project construction is advancing in parallel with the expansion of local corn planting. In 2026, the corn planting area in Kyzylorda Region is about 11,000 hectares, with a harvest of more than 60,000 tons of grain. The local government has formulated a roadmap for the development of the corn industry, planning to expand the planting area to 28,000 hectares in 2027 to provide a raw material source for the subsequent deep-processing plant.

At present, the newly built complex has 50 employees. According to the plan announced by the local government, as the deep-processing plant gradually reaches its designed operating status within the next two years, the entire project is expected to provide about 550 jobs. The local agricultural department will also promote production cooperation between growers and processing enterprises, expanding the scale of corn planting through stable procurement and processing channels.