NEW TENDENCIES IN AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES IN KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract

State agricultural policy in Kazakhstan has been supporting to ensure production of competitive agrifood that is in demand. For that, the first objective is to involve house holdings into agricultural cooperation. In order to promote these initiatives cooperatives can get privileged loans and support. Loans provided by Fund for financial support of agriculture starting it from 2016 thus joined to work of uniting small-scale farms in agricultural cooperatives. With the aim of developing agricultural cooperation, new loan products have been developed and introduced: "Yntymak" - to finance service-procurement centers in the form of meat, dairy, fruit and vegetable cooperatives; "Igilik" - on financing of purchase and reproduction of agricultural animals and poultry; "Bereke" - to
develop a network of family feedlots; "Birlik" - on the development of a network of milk receiving points. For meet breeding state support to purchase breeds and get paid for selling cattle for meat. There are three levels of subsidies in dairy each of them has
different requirements. In order to get the state support as subsidies for produced agricultural products agricultural cooperative must have at least twenty members. This requirement issued by state to build more sustainable union in terms of size
and dimension of cooperatives’ operation. Despite of this subsidies for ensure food safety in the country producers are not so happy with them considering the amount of subsidies too small and insufficient to produce milk. In our opinion in order to ensure food safety in milk, meat, vegetables through stimulating agricultural cooperatives providing mutual cofounding of government and private farms and house holdings would be as another mechanism to implement. Other way to consider can be regional sustainable development programs part of which is to stimulating agriculture production through cooperatives by giving them grants setting requirements connected to not only produce products but also develop marketing and distribution network for agrifood.