This was announced by Agriculture Minister Aidarbek Saparov during Parliamentary hearings in the Senate of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan on the issue "Food security is the main component of national security."
The Ministry is monitoring the availability of the main types of food products, including 19 socially significant ones.
By the end of 2023, the domestic market is 100% or more secured for 10 commodity items, including wheat flour, salt, bread, rice, pasta, sunflower oil, potatoes, lamb, beef and carrots.
The availability of 14 food products is 80% or more, including chicken eggs, cucumbers, horse meat, tomatoes, milk, buckwheat groats, cabbage, pepper, pork, onions, beets, fermented dairy products, butter and apples.
However, import dependence is observed for 5 food products. In particular, these are poultry meat, sausages, fish, cheeses and cottage cheese, as well as sugar.
According to these commodity items, the Ministry is systematically working to increase production and import substitution.
The task of strengthening food security is planned to be solved through the implementation of investment projects.
By 2027, it is planned to implement 780 investment projects worth 2.3 trillion tenge, including 170 projects worth 855 billion tenge for import-dependent goods.
In addition, 69 MTFs have already been funded to saturate the domestic market with dairy products as part of the program for replicating the experience of North Kazakhstan Region.
"If over the past 10 years only 78.5 billion tenge has been attracted to the dairy industry, then only in the last year private investments in the industry amounted to 100 billion tenge. To stimulate the inflow of investments, the number of lending areas under the program for replicating the experience of North Kazakhstan region has been increased to 13, 200 billion tenge is provided for these purposes in 2025. It also provides for direct subsidization of long-term money for investment purposes and attraction of funds from commercial banks for all sectors of agriculture," Aidarbek Saparov noted about the measures taken.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/moa/press/news/details/897863