Agriculture in Kazakhstan

[2] Minor crops include barley, cotton, sugar beets, sunflowers, flax, and rice.

For 2012, the Kazakh Agriculture Ministry cut the crop forecast to only 14 million tons because of dry weather.

[3][4] Animals raised in Kazakhstan include cattle, chickens, sheep, pigs, horses and goats (in descending order of numbers).

[9] In February 2013, the Government of Kazakhstan approved a new sectoral program of agro-industrial complex development for 2013–2020 "Agribusiness – 2020" at a session chaired by Prime Minister Serik Akhmetov.

[10] The Agribusiness-2020 Program aims to develop four dimensions: financial recovery, increase of affordability of products, works and services for the agro-industrial sector entities, development of the state system of agricultural producers support, improvement of efficiency of the state management system of the agro-industrial complex.

[10] In line with the Agribusiness-2020 Program, the Government of Kazakhstan approved one stimulation package in April 2014: the rules of subsidizing efforts to restore agricultural companies to health.

[11] Experts doubted that capital subsidies alone could provide a remedy to Kazakhstan's agricultural development challenges.

Instead, more encompassing institutional reforms such as improvements in the rural education system and a devolution of political power to local decision makers have been recommended.

[12] In 2016 Kazakhstan's Ministry of Agriculture launched a program aimed at providing financing to cooperatives that help farms buy equipment, store and transport products, provide veterinary services, organize the supply of fodder and agrochemical products and help with lending.

[15] This Plan is in support of their Agribusiness – 2020 program and in it the Ministry sets goals and projections for grain production, consumption and exports between 2013 and 2020.

[15] A few key trends shown in these projections include: In 2014 the volume of investments in Kazakhstan's agricultural sector exceeded 166 billion KZT, which is 17 percent more than in 2013.