Kazakhstan will reduce the sowing area of rice and cotton

Published 2021년 10월 5일

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The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, along with the akimats of the Almaty, Turkestan and Kyzylorda regions, will formulate a strategy to progressively decrease the cultivation area for moisture-loving crops such as rice and cotton, in accordance with a directive from the country's Prime Minister, Askar Mamin. This initiative is part of a larger plan to extend irrigated land by 2.2 million hectares by 2025 and 3 million hectares by 2030, which involves the reconstruction of 120 canals and the construction of nine large reservoirs. Additionally, the government is developing a Roadmap for the digitalization of these infrastructure projects and preparing regional roadmaps for the implementation of water-saving technologies in irrigated areas by 2025.

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The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, together with the akimats of the Almaty, Turkestan and Kyzylorda regions, will work out the issue of a gradual reduction in the area under crops of moisture-loving crops - rice and cotton. This order was given by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askar Mamin following the government meeting, the government press service reported on October 5. As noted in the message, this work will be included in a set of measures to fulfill the instructions of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan to expand the area of irrigated land by 2025 to 2.2 million hectares, and by 2030 - to 3 million hectares. In this regard, in the next five years, measures will be taken to reconstruct 120 canals with a length of 2.3 thousand km and 9 large reservoirs with a total volume of 1.7 billion cubic meters will be built.At the regional level, modernization, repair and maintenance of existing hydraulic structures, wells will be ...

Source: Zol