For the first time in Zaisan District of East Kazakhstan region, a drip irrigation system was introduced on an area of about 500 hectares. This was announced by the director of the Kazsushar branch in East Kazakhstan region Nurzhan Amirzhanov during a meeting with journalists.
In the region, 2.8 thousand hectares of land are irrigated by water-saving systems. This year, an enterprise for the production of sprinkler irrigation equipment was opened in Ust-Kamenogorsk. The first samples of the company's products were installed on 185 hectares of Ulansky district. By the end of the year, it is planned to install water-saving systems on more than 400 hectares of arable land.
It should be recalled that the Ministry of Water Resources and irrigation, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, increased the amount of subsidies for the installation of water saving systems from 50% to 80%. Thus, by the end of 2030, the ministry intends to cover more than 50% of the total area of irrigated land in the Republic with water-saving technologies and save up to 2.2 cubic kilometers of water per year.
"In the East Kazakhstan region, the irrigation period was successful, which made it possible to collect a good harvest. The branch provided 36.7 million cubic meters of water to farmers for irrigation of 9.2 thousand hectares. As part of the preparation for the vegetation, the canal with a total length of 18 kilometers was cleaned mechanically, work was carried out on the repair of hydrobenches and their certification"
- said Nurzhan Amirzhanov, director of the Kazsushar branch in the East Kazakhstan region.

Source : https://www.gov.kz/memleket/entities/water/press/news/details/876416