Export support is a top priority

To support agricultural producers in Kazakhstan, 298 projects were implemented, 272.2 billion tenge were disbursed. These figures are the only indicator of the effective work of the Agrarian Credit Corporation, a subsidiary of the National Bank of Kazakhstan KazAgro. At the same time, the emphasis is on financing investment projects that introduce new technologies and have export potential.

Kazakh farmers are gradually entering the foreign market. They achieve this by expanding production and implementing large investment projects.

Support area

A garden that landed on the heads of the masses

In South Kazakhstan region, 1.5 million hectares of land have not been developed

Positive things done in the region

Erbol Kubentaev, director of the branch of the Agrarian Credit Corporation in Eastern Kazakhstan, says that the ANC supports agricultural producers aimed at developing innovation and introducing new technologies in livestock, crop and fish farming.

“The corporation ensures development on a long-term basis by providing preferential loans to producers and processors. At the same time, the infrastructure around the farms is also developing. Villages are being revived, new jobs are being created,” says Erbol Kobentaev.

This not only ensures the industrial safety of Kazakhstan, but also allows domestic businesses to compete in the international market. ANC contributes to the development of Kazakhstan's agricultural production by financing investment projects.

As an example of such development, we can mention the companies “Elim-ai Kokpek” and “Kuzmich” in the East Kazakhstan region. They have opened dozens of jobs in the village and are introducing new technologies in their fields.

The Elim-ai Kokpekti company is a farm specializing in meat production in the village of Kokpekti, East Kazakhstan region. The company was founded in 2011 and is actively developing. Currently, it is export-oriented and successfully implements large projects.

A new feedlot for 5,000 head of cattle will help strengthen the farm’s market position. It is planned to be introduced by the end of October. The project started in 2018. Then the company received a preferential loan from the Agricultural Credit Corporation. More specifically, the ANC allocated 60% of the funds for the fattening sector, the cost of which is about 1 billion tenge.

“This project is important for the development of regional and small farms. Our task is to fatten and sell livestock on the domestic or foreign market,” says Bolat Bekberdinov, head of the Elim-ai Kokpekti company.

According to the ANC press service, there are about 2,000 head of cattle at the feedlot. It is planned to export beef to the UAE and China.

Modern technologies are being introduced at the feedlot to improve product quality. For example, cows will be fattened using automatic systems based on new world technologies.

The head of the Elim-ai Kokpekti farm, Bolat Bekberdinov, says that he learned this from his colleagues in other countries.

“The modern methods used help animals gain weight. I have visited many beef farming countries. “We were able to meet all 11 of the 11 criteria that are followed in America, Canada and Europe,” he says.

According to Bolat Bekberdinov, the company is actively working with more than 300 local farms. Cooperation between farms is mainly carried out on the basis of renting bulls. Farmers do not hide the fact that renting bulls helps increase livestock productivity.

Another area of ​​cooperation is the preparation of feed. Although the company has stocks of feed, Bolat Bekberdinov says he cannot prepare everything himself. Therefore, some products, such as corn, are purchased from other farmers.

The importance of creating fattening for an ordinary village lies in the creation of new direct and indirect jobs.

“What do people in the village need?” Need work. We have more than 100 employees. After completion of the project, it is planned to employ 250 village residents. “I think that life in the village will not lose its value only if business is developed and livestock farming is established,” says Bolat Bekberdinov.

According to another report, additional jobs will be created in small farms. A cattle feedlot increases the amount of work that can be done on the feedlot. For example, if three workers are needed to service 100 cows, then 150 villagers need to be employed for 5,000 head of cattle.

Kazakh fish in Russia and China

Today fishing is also a major activity. In the summer, the government leadership implemented comprehensive projects to develop this area. Now the goal is to open fish production in every region. According to experts, this area should become one of the priorities in agriculture, solving the problem of providing the population with food rich in protein.

Over the past 10 years, 13 projects worth 13.9 billion tenge have been financed in the country with a total production capacity of 3.26 thousand tons. There are a total of 10 such projects in the portfolio of the Agrarian Credit Corporation.

One of them is Kuzmich LLP in the village of Samar, East Kazakhstan region. This is a farm that breeds valuable fish species, including sturgeon and salmon.

In 2018, the company received a preferential loan in the amount of 50 million tenge to expand fish farming using feed and black juice in an integrated system under the Agroexport program. In particular, electric refrigeration equipment for freezing fish and cages for growing fish were purchased.

According to the deputy director of the enterprise, Bakyt Mubarakova, the farm now supplies its products not only to the domestic market, but also abroad.

“We also export to Russia, China, Azerbaijan and Georgia. We send pike, pike, perch, and flounder there. Kazakhstani products are in demand. In addition, they buy our finished products – fillets and minced meat, fresh frozen fish,” says B. Mubarakova.

Kuzmich LLP plans to produce 100 tons of fish per year by 2021; by expanding production, 30 additional jobs will be created.

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