Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited agro-industrial enterprises of Almaty region on Wednesday.
The canned fruit factory "Issyk" LLC and the farm "Aidarbayev" are involved in the state program on innovative development of agro-industrial complex of Kazakhstan.
The canned fruit factory is engaged in the processing of tomatoes, apricots and apples, as well as the production of tomato preserves, tomato paste and juice concentrates. Raw materials for the plant are supplied by the 1,045 ha farm "Aidarbayev", which is growing fruit and vegetables with the use of Israeli drip irrigation technology in Kaynar village, Enbekshikazakh district. These technologies enable to save water and reduce human intervention to a minimum. In addition, the farm is engaged in animal husbandry, horticulture, vegetable growing and fish farming.
Nursultan Nazarbayev got familiarized with the project on clarified juice concentrate production and praised the level of innovations at the enterprises.
The capacity of the future production facility, which is scheduled for launch in July 2012, will be 3 tons of apple concentrate, and 2 tons of sugar concentrate. The company invested KZT 920 million in this project.