Socio - economic development of agriculture in Akmola region in January-April 2025
The main indicators of the agro-industrial complex
The gross agricultural output in Akmola region in January-April 2025 amounted to 99,822.1 million tenge (IFO – 107.5%), including: crop production – 950.7 million tenge (IFO – 100%), animal husbandry – 98,858.4 million tenge (IFO – 107.6%).
In total, there are 8,650 operating agricultural enterprises in the region, including: 1,910 - legal entities, 522 - individual entrepreneurs, and 6,218 - peasant farms.
Investments in fixed assets of agriculture in January-April 2025 amounted to 12.4 billion tenge, investments in fixed assets in food production – 1.5 billion tenge.
The number of employed people in agriculture in the region is 21.5% of the total number of employed (400.2 thousand people in total, including 85.9 thousand people in agriculture (according to the results of the 1st quarter of 2025).
The average salary in the agricultural sector for the 1st quarter of 2025 amounted to 269.6 thousand tenge with an increase of 30.2% compared to the same period in 2024 (in January-March 2024 - 207.0 thousand tenge or 106.9%).
State support for the agro-industrial complex
Subsidizing the agro-industrial complex
In 2025, the volume of state support for the agro-industrial complex in the form of subsidies amounts to 63.3 billion tenge, including in the following areas::
-to subsidize the crop industry - 26.6 billion tenge (pesticides - 9 687.5 million tenge, fertilizers – 15 171.4 million tenge, seeds - 1,235.0 million tenge, priority crops - 500 million tenge);
-for subsidizing livestock production - 5.7 billion tenge;
-financial instruments – KZT 30.3 billion (investment subsidies – KZT 21,014.6 million, reimbursement of interest rates on loans and leasing – KZT 9,245.3 million, within the framework of loan guarantee and insurance – KZT 86.76 million);
-to subsidize deep processing - 0.6 billion tenge.
Purchase of agricultural machinery
In January-April 2025, SHTP purchased 379 units of equipment worth 11.7 billion tenge.
Animal husbandry
In January-April 2025, the region produced 71.6 thousand tons of live meat (111.3%), 62.1 thousand tons of milk (103%), and 212.9 million chicken eggs (97.3%).
As of May 1, 2025, the total number of cattle in all categories of farms is 449.7 thousand heads (101.5% compared to the same period in 2024), including the number of cows - 188.0 thousand heads (100.6%).
The number of horses was 277.3 thousand (107.8%), birds -9654.9 thousand (102.7%).
The number of sheep and goats was 709.9 thousand (110%), pigs – 50.7 thousand (82.4%).
Implementation of investment projects in 2025
In 2025, it is planned to implement 20 investment projects in the agricultural sector totaling 46.5 billion tenge, including:
- for milk production - 5 projects worth 22.8 billion tenge;
- irrigation of fields - 7 projects worth 10.3 billion tenge;
- 1 meat production project worth 0.7 billion tenge;
- for processing agricultural products - 2 projects worth 6.1 billion tenge;
- grain storage - 5 projects worth 6.5 billion tenge.
Processing of agricultural products
In the Akmola region there is:
- 16 meat processing plants with a production capacity of 128.9 thousand tons per year;
- 15 dairy production enterprises with a production capacity of 149.0 thousand tons per year;
- 28 flour milling enterprises with a production capacity of 1365.8 thousand tons per year;
- 8 oilseed processing plants with a production capacity of 138.0 thousand tons per year.
In January-April 2025, food products worth 94.1 billion tenge were produced, with an increase of 12.7% compared to the same period in 2024.
The main share in the structure of food production is occupied by the meat processing industry – 43.5%, dairy – 11.6%, vegetable oil – 16.9%, grain processing – 13.5%, bread and bakery products – 2.2%, other industries – 12.3%.
Meat processing
Meat processing enterprises and workshops produced 34.5 thousand tons of meat in physical terms, with an increase of 16.2% compared to the same period in 2024, the volume of sausage production amounted to 1,028 tons, at the level of last year.
Milk processing
The volume of processed milk production amounted to 44.3 thousand tons with an increase of 13.1% compared to the same level in 2024, 742 tons of butter were produced with an increase of 3.9%, 511 tons of cheese and cottage cheese, 3.0 thousand tons of fermented dairy products with an increase of 7.2%.
Processing of oilseeds
Vegetable oil was produced at 28.7 thousand tons with an increase at the level of last year.
Flour production
67.2 thousand tons of fine flour were produced, with an increase of 4.8% compared to the same period in 2024.