In Kazakhstan, the area of land with water-saving irrigation methods has increased by 85.1 thousand hectares

Every year, about 300 thousand hectares of irrigated lands remain without water due to losses At the last meeting of the Government, Vice Minister of Agriculture Azat Sultanov reported that the total area of irrigated agricultural lands in Kazakhstan is 1.9 million hectares. Of these, 1 million hectares, or 67%, of the land is irrigated by surface irrigation, 98 thousand hectares, or 6.5%, are flooded rice fields, and 397.3 thousand hectares, or 26.3%, use modern irrigation technologies. During the current vegetation period, about 11.2 billion m³ of water was supplied for irrigation. “As a result, every year about 300 thousand hectares of irrigated lands remain without water supply due to excessive losses in irrigation systems. The largest share in the structure of irrigated crops is occupied by forage, grain and leguminous crops, vegetables, root crops and other agricultural crops,” Azat Sultanov informed. At the same time, as a long-term solution to save water, the main ...