Government OKs comprehensive plan for development of agricultural processing until 2020

"The main purpose of the plan is to reduce production costs and increase competitiveness of products. For this it is necessary to provide raw materials to processing enterprises, high-tech production and markets for new products," Deputy Minister of Agriculture Muslim Umiryayev said.

According to him, the main factor curbing the growth of processing volumes is the weak competitiveness of domestic industries associated with high production costs.

In this regard it is planned to support priority areas - milk processing, production of butter, cheese and milk powder, meat processing, production of oil and fat products, pasta and cereals, processing of corn, fruit and vegetables, sugar production and primary processing of wool and skins of cattle."

Thus, until 2020, in the framework of "Agribusiness 2020" Program it is planned to allocate 59.7 billion tenge for milk processing, 13.4 billion tenge - meat processing, 3.2 billion tenge - processing of fruits and vegetables, 17 8 billion tenge - processing of oilseeds, 9.8 billion tenge - deep processing of grain, 14 billion tenge - production of sugar, about 1 billion tenge - primary processing of skin and wool.

In general, there are 1370 active enterprises in the food processing industry, including 60 large ones.