There will be meat and saffron

- Kostanay Region

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It is planned to increase the share of exports in Kostanai region

Kostanai region has big plans to increase the supply of food for export, and in particular, this applies to meat products. Akim of the region Archimed Mukhambetov spoke about the prospects of development of the meat cluster at a briefing at the Service of Central Communications.

"Intensification of the meat cluster will allow to load to the maximum until 2020 the available feed lots at full capacity from the current 30% of capacity and increase export volumes in the current year up to 3 tons, and in the future to 5.6 thousand tons, or 20 times", - said the head of the region.

In addition, there are several projects in the area, the implementation of which will be possible thanks to the participation of foreign investors. As an example, Archimed Mukhambetov summed the results of the work of the regional delegation in the recent Kazakh-Iranian business forum, which was held in Tehran (capital of Iran). A memorandum on cooperation was signed during the business forum between akimat of Kostanai region and LLP “Kaz-ir-Agro”. Akim noted that Iranian experts are going to grow safflower on the land at Zhitikara Kamystin districts, in addition, Iranian businessmen are planning the construction of a safflower oil plant in Zhitikara.

"The volume of investments will amount to 5 million dollars", - Said the Akim.

In addition, representatives of Kostanai region held a bilateral meeting in Tehran, at which it was agreed further cooperation on the cultivation and processing of oilseeds. "In general, 40 investment projects totaling 6.5 billion tenge were put into operation in the field of agribusiness over the past year, there were created 333 new jobs", - said Archimed Mukhambetov.

The Iranian side also supported the proposal for joint participation in the ten iron ore projects (LLP "Sokolivka" with companies "Zaman," and “Sedr Tamin Investment”). The Iranians are ready to help with localization of car assembly for Renault on the platform of LLP "SaryarkaAvtoProm".

Reference: Safflower - is an annual herbaceous plant that belongs to the Asteraceae family, or Asteraceae. At safflower has a few names: wild saffron, or dye American thistle and safflower. The plant is very popular around the world because of its unique features. Safflower contains izokartamin, kartamidin, luteolin glycosides, carthamin and chalcone glycosides. Secondly, this plant is used as an oilseed. It is grown in arid areas where sunflowers and other such plants do not survive so well.

Zhanar Serdalina