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Agribusiness

Investment opportunities

Achievements and advantages of agro-industrial complex in Kazakhstan:

Extensivel land resources

Meadows pastures 180 million hectares

Arable 20 million hectares

Geographical proximity of markets, with significant capacity

EEU

170 million people

China

1,3 billion people

Source: TradeMap.

Current export products agribusiness is 2,4 us $*

Low labor - average wage.

400$ (officially KZT 100 000)

Which is much less than in the EU and the countries of Europe.

State support - tax preferences in the line of Ministries of Investment and Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan, subsidies in the line of the Ministry of Agriculture of the RK.

Grain Production and Export

Kazakhstan is among the top 5 exporters of wheat grain

On average, 7-8 million tons of wheat grain per year

Grain Production and Export - Kazakhstan is among the top of exporters of wheat grain, according to the report of the International Council on grain (IGC) of July 2, in the season 2017/2018 Kazakhstan exported 8,4 million tons of wheat, in the last season of 2016/2017, exports amounted to 7,4 million tons.

Main areas:

Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Italy

China
Afghanistan
Kyrgyzstan

Flour Production and Export

Kazakhstan is among the three largest exporters of flour- on average, up to 2.3 million tons of flour per year. The main directions - Afghanistan, more than 1.5 million tons, Uzbekistan - 0.6 million tons.

Production and export of oilseeds

Currently Kazakhstan produces

to 1million tons oilseeds per year.

Flax seeds included into a three of world leaders.

Production and export of poultry meat

Currently Kazakhstan produces

to 170tons of broiler meat

That is 50% of the domestic market capacity, while in case of opening the Chinese market, growth potential will be up to 1 million tons of broiler meat.

Production and export of cattle meat

Currently in Kazakhstan, about

5 million cattle

the growth potential is

up to 15 million head of cattle

Taking into account the needs of the nearest sales markets - the Russian Federation and China. It is necessary to solve two main tasks - to improve the gene pool of broodstock and solve the issue of pastures irrigation in order to increase their productivity. The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan allocates subsidies for the purchase of pedigree cattle, for the purchase of equipment for irrigation of pastures.

Increased irrigated land

Currently, the area of irrigated land in Kazakhstan is 280 thousand hectares. Irrigated lands are highly productive and equal in productivity to 6-7 hectares of rainfed land without irrigation. Kazakhstan has the potential to increase irrigated land of up to 1 million hectares; this requires serious investments in the infrastructure of irrigation systems — canals, aryks, reservoirs, pits, pumping stations, dams, etc.