105.1 MILLION US DOLLARS: THE VOLUME OF AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS IN 2020 INCREASED FIVE-FOLD

The order of the Head of State was fulfilled ahead of schedule in the Turkestan region.

In the Message of the First President of Kazakhstan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan "New development opportunities in the conditions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution" in 2018, the Head of State instructed to increase labor productivity in the agro-industrial complex in 5 years. Nursultan Nazarbayev also instructed to increase the export of processed agricultural products by 2.5 times.

According to the results of the work last year, the volume of exports of processed agricultural products in the Turkestan region increased 5 times and amounted to 105.1 million US dollars. This year, work in this direction will continue. Thus, in the Turkestan region, the five-year plan was exceeded in the shortest possible time - this was noted at the weekly staff meeting chaired by the governor of the region Umirzak Shukeyev.

Head of the Department of Agriculture Nurbek Badyrakov reported on the implementation of the state program for the development of the agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 2017-2021.

He noted that labor productivity per employee in the agro-industrial complex increased by 2.2 times. The volume of the gross product increased by 1.8 times, reaching 729.7 billion tenge. Attracted investments in the field of agriculture have increased by 8.7 times compared to 2015 - this is 58.1 billion tenge. The volume of investments in the fixed capital of food production increased by 3 times (9.5 billion tenge).

The number of livestock in the region has increased by 13% in two years. The Turkestan region ranks second in the country in terms of import and breed transformation of the breeding stock of cattle. For this purpose, about 20 thousand heads of cattle were purchased within three years. For two years, the growth of the gross livestock amounted to 8.5%. This year, this indicator will be much higher.

Also in the region, water utilities are being repaired and cleaned of garbage, and in the near future they will all be digitized. Mayor of the region Umirzak Shukeyev instructed to do this as soon as possible. He assigned responsibility for mechanical cleaning, concreting and repair of water utilities to the heads of all districts and cities.

More than 100 thousand children of 3-6 years old live in the Turkestan region, and all of them attend kindergartens. There are about 1.5 thousand preschool organizations, and most of them are private. On the creation of favourable conditions for children reported to the head of the regional Department of human development Rakhimbek Zholaev.

According to him, work continues in the region to provide preschool organizations with clean drinking water, hot water and internal toilets. All this work is under the personal control of the akim of the region.

This year it is planned to finish the construction

63 educational facilities that were started last year. Umirzak Estayevich instructed to increase the number of educational institutions being built within the framework of public-private partnership. He stressed that the owners of educational institutions are obliged to strive for high-quality training and attract the best teachers to work. It should be noted that the region has developed a comprehensive plan to improve the quality of education, work is underway to ensure the material and technical base and improve the skills of teaching staff. They will continue to create comfortable conditions for children with special educational needs, and 900 schools in the region will be equipped with special subject rooms. The fund of fiction in school libraries will be replenished.

Together with the Ministry of Education and Science, teachers of the Turkestan region are actively developing textbooks, methodological complexes and manuals. They are the authors of about 300 publications. The textbook "Olketanu" ("Local History"), developed by the author's team of teachers, is recognized as the best in the republic. It is published in two languages, and is currently used in schools in the region. This experience was disseminated in other regions.