An agricultural cluster is being created in the Karaganda region

In the Osakarov district of the Karaganda region, Eurasia Invest LTD LLP is implementing a major project to create a diversified agricultural cluster.

Ivan Georgiadi, the founder of the company, told Ermaganbet Bulekpayev about the progress of the work during a working trip of the head of the region to the district.

The project is being developed with the support of the Akimat of the Karaganda region and SEC "Saryarka". Its main goal is the comprehensive development of agriculture, increasing the volume of local products and creating new jobs.

The cluster will combine several areas at once, some of the facilities have already been put into operation.

This year, an elevator with a capacity of 10,000 tons of grain was launched in the Rodnikovsky village, and work is underway to expand it to 80,000 tons. Three modern vegetable storages with a total capacity of 17,000 tons have been built here to store their own potato crop. The SAUMAL dry mare's milk production plant is already operating.

The key object of the cluster will be a dairy farm with 6,000 heads in Zhansary rural district. The first stage of the 1,200—head project is currently being implemented. Work on the cowshed and the maternity and dry block is being completed: the buildings are being closed with sandwich panels, and the floors are being concreted. A 40-seat milking carousel is being installed in the milking and dairy unit.

— All the attention is now focused on this particular object. Communications have already been connected, infrastructure buildings have been built, there is a dormitory for 230 people, an administrative and household complex is being built for shifts, and canteens are operating. Today, about 300 people work here around the clock," said Serik Zhunusov, Director of Eurasia Invest LTD.

Contracts have been signed, and the first shipments of Holstein-Frisian cows from Russia are expected to arrive in the spring.

A separate area of the project is the development of irrigated lands. Since 2024, modern irrigation systems have been put into operation on an area of 4,800 hectares of arable land. Next year, it is planned to increase the irrigated area to 10,000 hectares, which will create a sustainable feed base for the dairy farm and expand the crops of marginal crops.

Further expansion of the cluster is planned for 2026-2027. A linear elevator for 40,000 tons of storage will be built in stages on the lands of Akbulak village, followed by an increase in capacity to 80,000 tons, as well as an oilseed processing plant with a capacity of up to 300 tons per day. Sunflower oil production is planned here. A feed mill with a capacity of 10 tons per hour will be located nearby, which will provide feed to farms and poultry farms, including using elevator products and oil processing.

Another large facility will be a meat-processing poultry farm with a production capacity of up to 10,000 tons of poultry meat per year. About 300 jobs will be created here. The project is focused on providing the region with its own products and reducing dependence on imports.

An important condition for the implementation of all these projects will be the construction of a railway track to the territory of future facilities from the current branch of the Molodezhny coal mine. The construction of railway infrastructure, as well as energy supply facilities and highways will be carried out with the assistance of the Akimat of the Karaganda region.

In general, the project provides for the creation of about 600 new jobs, the growth of tax revenues and the development of logistics, including through the railway infrastructure.