BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr. 12
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Gross output in Kazakhstan’s agriculture has increased by 2.8 percent over three months of 2021 compared to the same period of 2020, Kazakhstan’s Agriculture Minister Saparkhan Omarov said, Trend reports citing the press office of the government.
Omarov noted that the gross agricultural production output amounted to 591.3 billion tenge ($1.3 billion), which was mainly due to an increase in production in animal husbandry by 3 percent to 551.1 billion tenge ($1.2 billioN).
There was also an increase in the production of meat in live weight by 5.1 percent and milk by 3.4 percent. Crop products output equaled 33.5 billion tenge ($77.3 million), which corresponds to the level of last year’s output.
The greatest increase in agriculture output was in four regions of the country, i.e. in Akmola by 14.1 percent, Zhambyl by 3.8 percent, Karaganda by 3.5 percent and Pavlodar by 3.2 percent.
Food production output increased by 3.3 percent year-on-year and amounted to 487.2 billion tenge ($1.1 million). The increase was reported in the production of beet sugar by 28.3 percent, butter by 26.8 percent, cereals by 21 percent, processed rice - by 19.7 percent, vegetable oil by 17.5 percent, cheese and cottage cheese by 9.3 percent, flour by 9 percent, processed milk by 4.7 percent.
The volume of investments in fixed assets of agriculture increased by 54.8 percent and amounted to 112.3 billion tenge ($259.3 million), in food production by 86.8 percent and amounted to 24.3 billion tenge ($56.1 million).
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