ASTANA (TCA) — Food production in Kazakhstan increased by 7.5 percent in the first half of this year, with growth registered in the production of flour, pasta, cereals, vegetable oil and processed milk as compared with the previous year, Deputy Minister of Agriculture Rustem Kurmanov said on August 16 at a press conference on the implementation of the State Program for the Agro-Industrial Sector Development for 2017-2021, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.
According to Kurmanov, the potential of the processing enterprises is still not fully used, and in connection with this, the Map of the location of production capacities for the processing of agricultural products has been developed. The Map covers nine areas: processing of milk, meat, hides and wool, oilseeds, grains, sugar beets, and potatoes.
At a briefing on the same day, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture Kairat Aituganov said that the State Program for the Agro-Industrial Sector Development for 2017-2021 has made it possible to increase the level of processing and export of domestic agricultural products.
At present, the work on formalizing the Map is being completed, after which the implementation will be launched in all regions of the country. This will increase the gross production of processed products from 1.9 to 3 trillion tenge, and create 7 thousand jobs.
At the same time, to solve the problem of increasing the export of food products, the Food Contract Corporation JSC was transformed into an operator for selling all agricultural products in foreign markets. Now it is engaged not only in grain, but also in other types of agricultural products.
