BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 22
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
The area of agricultural land which has operated with water saving technologies will be increased to 750,000 ha in Kazakhstan before 2030, Kazakhstan’s Minister of Agriculture Saparkhan Omarov said, Trend reports citing the press office of Kazakhstan’s government.
The minister said that these plans are included in the draft of a new State program for water resources management before 2030.
The full-scale introduction of water-saving irrigation technologies will allow rational use of irrigated lands with a decrease in water consumption and an increase in productivity.
Taking into account the need to bring the area of irrigated land to 3 million hectares, the Ministry of Agriculture developed a forecast structure of sown areas in 2018. This structure was brought to the regional administrative centers for implementation.
“The forecast structure of agricultural crops provides for a decrease in the sowing area of water-intensive crops such as rice to 75,000 hectares and cotton to 100,000 hectares. There are also plans to reduce grain crops sowing area to 50,000 hectares,” Omarov reported.
According to him, the correct use of irrigated land will allow to fulfill the tasks set by the Head of State for the transition to the production of highly profitable crops, import substitution and for the gradual increase of the area of irrigated land to 3 million hectares by 2030.
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