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Poultry meat production in Kazakhstan has nearly tripled over the past decade and the local farmers are ready to repli- cate their suc- cess in the com- ing years.
Powerhouse in Central Asia
By 2027 Kazakhstan seeks to boost the domestic poultry meat production fourfold compared to the current level, to 740,000 tonnes per year. Ruslan Sharipov, chairman of the Union of Poultry Breeders of Kazakhstan sees his country becoming the biggest poultry exporter in Central Asia.
BY VLADISLAV VOROTNIKOV T
he poultry industry in Kazakhstan is experiencing a strong production growth, Mr Sharipov said. In 2018 the domestic production is expected to reach 230,000 tonnes, which is 50,000 tonnes up as com-
pared to 2017 and 80,000 up as compared to 2016. In 2019, production is expected to significantly grow as the recently launched Makinskaya poultry complex – the biggest poultry farm in Central Asia with the designed production capacity of 50,000 tonnes per year – is slated to start operating in full force.
Poultry meat production in Kazakhstan has nearly tripled over the past decade and the local farmers are ready to repli- cate their success in the coming years. Main export markets are neighbouring countries Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyr- gyzstan. Others are China and the Gulf countries. To reach the set target, the industry will need the current state support to continue. During the past few years, the government was spending on average KZT18 billion ($ 50 million) per year to encourage investment activity both in broiler meat and egg production in the country. Kazakhstan farmers produced 5.2 billion eggs in 2017 and fully met the domestic demand. As a consequence the government plans to abandon subsidies to
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