Kazakhstan to Launch Its Own Infant Food Production

An infant food production plant has been built in Almaty.

Turegeldy Sharmanov, President of the Kazakh Nutrition Academy, made a declaration of the fact to journalists at the 10th International Congress of Paediatricians of the Turkic World this Thursday.

“This is a unique plant within the Post-Soviet territory. Formerly, there was such a plant in Moscow that allegedly provided the entire population of the Soviet Union with infant food. Now, we are constructing our own plant on the new, entirely modernised basis. The technological process of the plant is Hungarian. It is very expensive. The Kazakh Nutrition Academy is considering what type product should be produced here,” said T. Sharmanov.

The head of the Academy also said that the land plot purchased for the plant land allotment used to be a pioneer camp territory. “As a rule, in the Soviet time the cleanest natural environment used to be allotted to pioneer camps, whereas in Almaty such environmental conditions are in Akbulak, it has been already a year since we built a plant there,” noted the KazNA President.

The investor of the project, as T. Sharmanov noted, is a Korean businessman. Plans are in place that the plant will be producing fifteen types of infant products featuring various rates of fortification with vitamins, proteins, and micro elements intended to strengthen immunity.

“The products will be only natural ones; we will vigilantly watch the compliance. Within the plant, a dedicated quality control laboratory equipped with modern equipment will be established,” said T. Sharmanov.

According to T. Sharmanov, cleaning operations are currently in progress that will take seven days. The opening of the plant itself is to take place in fifteen days.

Asked if the facility is capable of providing infant food to the entire Kazakhstan, T. Sharmanov responded that to that end five such plants as a minimum have to be constructed across the country. The KazNA President added that it was his intention to lobby initiatives on financing affiliated branch companies in the Government and in the Parliament of the country.

Kazakhstan to Develop Winemaking

The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Kazakhstan proposes to include winemaking in the list of priority sectors under the Business Roadmap 2020 Programme, News-Kazakhstan Information Agency reports. Z hanar Aitzhanova, Minister of Economic Development and Trade, voiced the intent at the meeting of the unified coordinating council on entrepreneurship issues.

“Entrepreneurs raise the issue of listing winemaking into the catalogue of priority sectors so as to support domestic agricultural producers within the winemaking project, subject to making wine of domestic grape only,” said Ms. Aitzhanova.

She further explained that “winemaking was not on the list because it formerly was in the excisable product category subject to excise taxation”.

T he Business Roadmap 2020 Programme was developed to implement the New Decade-New Economic Upturn-New Opportunities for Kazakhstan message of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the people of Kazakhstan, and the Strategic Plan of Development of Kazakhstan until the Year 2020.

The programme is one of the mechanisms to implement the State Programme for Accelerated Industrial and Innovative Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the years 2010-2014.

The objective of the programme is to ensure a sustainable and balanced growth of regional entrepreneurship in the non-primary sectors of the country’s economy as well as to maintain the existing and to create new permanent jobs.

An Italian Plant on Tomato Paste Production Will Be Commissioned in Kyzylorda Oblast by Autum Kyzylorda. 7 June. Kazakhstan Today - An Italian plant on tomato paste production will be commissioned by autumn on Tatu-Agro farm in the southernmost Zhanakorgan District, Kyzylorda Oblast, as part of a breakthrough project. This was reported to the agency’s correspondent by Oraz Aliyev, director of Tatu-Agro.

According to Oraz Karakozhayev, Director of the Kyzylorda Branch of KazAgroFinance JSC, “the value of the plant is 700 million tenge. The designed capacity of its two lines is 30,000 tons of tomatoes.” According to him, tomato paste will be bottled in 250-gram, half-litre, one litre, and two-litre containers. The product will go directly to shops from the plant.

Last year, Tatu-Agro introduced the drip irrigation technology on its vegetable plantations. Up-to-date equipment worth 320 million tenge has been purchased to introduce the water saving technology.

According to the Kyzylorda Oblast Office for Business and Industry, “ten investment projects totalling 21.8 billion tenge are planned to be implemented in the Aral Sea region by the end of the year, including the new tomato paste production facility.”