ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 27. As part of the approved Road Map of the Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan for 2023, it is planned to implement seven projects worth 8.6 billion tenge (about $18.1 million) and create 159 jobs, Trend reports.
This was stated during a meeting between Vice Minister of Agriculture Abulkhair Tamabek and agricultural producers in the region.
As noted at the meeting, two projects for storing vegetables (cost – 3.6 billion tenge or about $7.5 million); one fruit storage project (2.6 billion tenge or about $5.4 million), two milk processing projects (450 million tenge or about $948,000) and others will be implemented.
As of October 23, three projects worth 4.3 billion tenge (about $9 million) were put into operation.
The volume of gross agricultural output in Kazakhstan increased by 3.2 percent in the first half of 2023 and amounted to 2.1 trillion tenge (about $4.4 billion)
The growth was achieved mainly due to a 3.3 percent increase in livestock production volumes. Meat production increased by 4.5 percent (1 million tons in live weight) and milk by 2.9 percent (3.2 million tons).
In 2022, the volume of gross agricultural production increased by 9.1 percent and amounted to 9.3 trillion tenge (about $19.5 billion). This happened due to an increase in crop production by 15 percent. Favorable weather conditions made it possible to carry out the harvesting campaign without downtime and harvest one of the best grain harvests in the last 10 years, which reached 22.8 million tons.
