Nursultan Nazarbayev: "We need to expand not only the crop area, but also to improve the quality of products"

- Almaty Region

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The Head of State stated this at a meeting with businessmen of Almaty region. It should be noted, according to the press service of Akorda, today the President paid a working visit to Taldykorgan.

Upon arrival, Nursultan Nazarbayev got acquainted with the reconstruction of Taldykorgan Airport. Head of the region Amandyk Batalov informed the President about the reconstruction of the runway, the prospects for the development of airport infrastructure and tourism in the region.

The second key meeting was held with the business community of Almaty region. In particular, the Head of State familiarized himself with the work of the farm "Nam" in Eskeldi District. The farm is engaged in growing sugar beet. A visit to this particular object is not accidental. Two years ago President Nursultan Nazarbayev instructed to carry out extensive work on the revival of the former glory of the region as a leading sugar beet area of the country. During this time, Koksu sugar factory has been launched. The work on restoration of the sugar factory in Aksu is underway. The Chamber of entrepreneurs also made its contribution to the development of sugar beet cultivation. NCE "Atameken" has launched a new microcredit program "Business regions" in rural areas. Beet growers received most of the loans in the amount of 6.2 million tenge, as the Credit Committee has designated this sector as a priority area in the program.

Today acreage of sugar beet in the region is 6 500 hectares. It is planned that this year farmers will harvest more than 700 quintals per hectare of crop.

"Almaty region has always been famous for sugar beet, corn and apples. Therefore it is necessary not only to expand the crop area, but also the quality of the products. The share of domestic sugar in the country is only 10%, this figure should be increased. It is necessary to continue to modernize Koksu and Eskeldi sugar mills and to begin reconstruction of Aksu destrict", - said the President of Kazakhstan.

Nursultan Nazarbayev also familiarized with the electronic land map. Through innovation every citizen of Kazakhstan can get acquainted with the regional agricultural situation, they will track the performance of farms.

During the visit the Head of State noted that the approach to provision of state agricultural subsidies has changed. "The basic premise of all my calls to the farmers is the need to subsidize labor productivity, that is, funds will be allocated for the production of the final product," - said N. Nazarbayev.

In addition, the President of Kazakhstan visited the exhibition of agricultural machinery and agricultural products of the processing enterprises. In conclusion, the President spoke with regional farmers and wished them further success in their work.

During the visit Nursultan Nazarbayev got acquainted with the activities of Tekeli mining and processing complex. The report on the progress of the project on extraction and processing of iron ore for production of cast iron with the use of innovative technology was delivered to the President.

Then the Head of State will visit a new multi-profile hospital in the regional center, which was put into operation a month ago. After that Nazarbayev will examine Schoolchildren's Palace, then the Center for servicing of youth.