January 12, 2012

Kazakhstan's egg production reaches self-sufficiency

Kazakhstan's poultry industry has achieved self-sufficiency for egg production after the Head of Union of Poultry Breeders, Ruslan Sharipov, reported productions at 105,000 tonnes of poultry meat and 2.8 million eggs in 2011.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture, "In the past two years, a significant amount of money has been invested, with many modern poultry farms being built, and now we see that the government subsidies completely earn its keep since the import volume of poultry for the last three years dropped by almost 22%"

Self-sufficiency in poultry meat production has reached about 50%. The state also plans to substantially increase investments in the poultry industry for 2012. The investments should result in Kazakhstan achieving self-sufficiency for poultry in 2013.