1. The sowing campaign of 2025.

This year, the area of spring sowing in the region will amount to 5.1 million hectares.

Grain crops are planned to be sown on 4.2 million hectares, oilseeds on 755 thousand hectares.

The necessary areas of socially significant crops are provided to meet the needs of the population, including potatoes in agricultural formations - 5.5 thousand hectares, buckwheat – 21 thousand hectares.

There are 818.8 thousand hectares of treated fallows for sowing this year. Autumn tillage was carried out on an area of 1 million 342 thousand hectares, snow retention was carried out on 843.5 thousand hectares.

Agricultural enterprises are provided with seeds and fuel. The sowing equipment is ready for work. There are 514.2 thousand tons of seeds. 72.8 thousand tons of diesel fuel were allocated to the region for spring field work.  Agricultural producers sell fuel at 254 tenge per 1 liter (2024 – 79.6 thousand tons, 250 tng/liter).

19.2 thousand tractors, 22.2 thousand seeders, and 1.3 thousand sowing complexes will take part in the sowing campaign.

84.1 billion tenge was allocated under concessional lending programs through the Agrarian Credit Corporation of the region ("Ken Dala", "Ken Dala 2" programs), 7 billion tenge was allocated under the Food Corporation. 350 million tenge (forward purchase).

The availability of machinery, aggregates and provision of seeds, fuels and lubricants and preferential financing make it possible to carry out the sowing campaign at the optimal time, within 15-16 days.

2. Providing the domestic market with food products.

The domestic market of the region is almost completely provided with socially significant food products of its own production.

Due to local production of 10 items, the need is fully covered: flour, pasta, bread, beef, milk, eggs (chicken), potatoes, sunflower oil, poultry meat, buckwheat groats.

For 6 items, partly due to local production and import from abroad – butter, dairy products, cheeses and cottage cheese, carrots, cabbage, onions. 

According to 3 names, salt, sugar and rice are imported from other regions or imported. 

In 2024, food products worth 429 billion tenge were produced.  The production of cereals increased 6.4 times compared to the previous year (from 6.9 to 44.3 thousand tons), the production of hard cheeses – by 34.6% (from 107 to 144 tons), canned meat – by 27% (from 744 to 945 tons), vegetable oil – by 17.1% (from 30.2 to 35.4 thousand tons), condensed milk by 5.7% (from 2,106 to 2,226 tons).

In January-March of this year, the processing enterprises of the region produced food products in the amount of 104.9 billion tenge (an increase of 19.4%). The IFO of food products was 110.3%.

Production of flour increased by 4.8% (from 252.2 thousand tons to 264.3 thousand tons), vegetable oil by 49.6% (from 7.6 thousand tons to 11.4 thousand tons), canned food by 14.4% (from 278 tons to 318 tons), yogurt by 3.2% (from 7.7 thousand tons to 8 thousand tons). tons), ice cream by 7.8% (from 410 tons to 442 tons).

In 2024, imports of agricultural products amounted to 397 million US dollars (including imports of food products amounted to 242 million US dollars).

Imports of dairy products decreased by 34%, meat products by 9%, vegetable oil by 3%, sugar by 6%, cereals by 29%, eggs by 80%.

According to statistics, in 2024, agricultural products worth over 645.7 million US dollars were exported (of which 417.7 million US dollars were products of processing enterprises).

The main share of agricultural exports is wheat flour (813.5 thousand tons), 9.7 thousand tons of dairy products, 9.2 thousand tons of potatoes, 5.1 thousand tons of cereals, 7.5 thousand tons of sunflower oil, 2.2 thousand tons of meat, 3.2 thousand tons of pasta.

Since the beginning of this year, agricultural products worth 56.1 million US dollars have been exported, which is 40% more than the same period last year (including food products worth 32.4 million US dollars).

Agricultural products of the agroindustrial complex were imported in the amount of 23.2 million US dollars. Supplies of dairy products decreased by 22%, meat products by 6%, cereals by 95%, eggs by 75%.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/kostanay/press/news/details/988755?lang=kk