Subsidies for water saving technologies will be increased up to 80%

The draft Concept of Water Resources Management System Development for 2024-2030 was adopted at the meeting of the Government of Kazakhstan, reports World of NAN with reference to the Cabinet of Ministers.

The head of the government pointed out that the rate of introduction of water-saving systems in the country remains low. Drip irrigation is used on only 84,000 hectares of the planned 312,000 hectares.

Therefore, in order to encourage farmers to apply water-saving technologies, the share of subsidies for the creation of irrigation systems, as well as the purchase of drip and sprinkler irrigation equipment will be increased from 50% to 80%.

It is expected that due to this, the area of irrigated land with water-saving technologies will grow to 1.3 million hectares, about 2.1 cubic kilometers of water will be saved, and the yield of agricultural products will increase significantly.

"Taking into account the high cost of technologies for most agrarians, their own production should be organized. Such projects are already being discussed. It is important to realize them," Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov noted.

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