Kazakhstan's Agro-Industrial Complex: 5% Growth Driven by State Support, Investments, and Crop Diversification

The most notable growth is observed in the food industry, which increased by 52.7% (134 billion tenge), as well as in beverage production, where output rose 1.6 times. The gross agricultural output exceeded 6.4 trillion tenge (+4.4%). Livestock farming grew by 3.2%, while crop farming saw a 4% increase.

Kazakhstan recorded an increase in livestock numbers across all types of farm animals:

• Cattle — 8.6 million heads;

• Horses — 4.5 million;

• Camels — 299.8 thousand;

• Poultry — 46.9 million;

• Sheep and goats — 22.6 million heads.

New Focus in Crop Farming

Wheat planting areas decreased by 884.6 thousand hectares (to 12.3 million hectares), while areas for oilseeds expanded (+1 million hectares, to 4 million hectares), grain legumes (+279.8 thousand hectares, to 781.5 thousand hectares), and potatoes (131.2 thousand hectares). The total sown area reached 23.6 million hectares, which is 322.8 thousand hectares more than the previous year.

New Projects and Investments

According to the 2025–2027 roadmap, 711 projects are planned in the country, some of which are already underway. Among them:

• "Kazkrakhmal" (Turkestan region) — corn deep processing plant, capacity 150 thousand tons/year;

• "Altai Mai" (East Kazakhstan region) — oil plant with a capacity of 169 thousand tons/year;

• JSC "Alelle Agro" (Zhambyl region) — poultry farm for 25 thousand tons of chicken meat;

• "Atyrau Chicken" (Atyrau region) — 5 thousand tons of broiler meat;

• "KazFeltec" (Aktobe region) — wool processing plant, 2.5 thousand tons/year.

In total, 96 facilities worth 132.2 billion tenge were commissioned in nine months. Agreements have been signed for the construction of greenhouses (338 billion tenge), sugar factories (307 billion), and productions for deep grain and beverage processing (175–216 billion).

Prices and Food Security

The share of domestic production for 24 types of socially significant products reaches 80–100%. Prices are monitored by government commissions, with checks on trade margins and direct sales fairs where prices are 15–20% lower than market rates.

Machinery and Innovations

Kazakhstan's farmers are actively updating their agricultural machinery fleet. Over nine months, 23.5 thousand units of machinery were purchased, 9.4 thousand of which were through leasing. The country has a large-scale preferential leasing program with a volume of 250 billion tenge and a rate of 5% per annum.

Kazakhstan already has 10 factories producing equipment from 12 global brands, including John Deere, CLAAS, Kirovets, and Lovol. The localization level of production has reached 90% of the tractor and combine market.