BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 5. Financing for
Kazakhstan’s agricultural sector reached 1.1 trillion tenge ($2.2
billion) in 2025, marking a rise of 172 billion tenge ($355.8
million) over the earlier 12 months, Minister of Finance Madi Takiyev
introduced throughout a joint session of parliament.
In line with a Kazakh authorities launch, Takiyev additionally
highlighted a robust upward development in international capital inflows throughout
the broader financial system.
The minister said that international direct funding (FDI) rose
14.5% – a rise of $2.6 billion – to deliver the nation’s whole
FDI quantity to $20.5 billion. He famous that the federal government has taken
a proactive strategy to sustaining this momentum by clearing
regulatory bottlenecks for main tasks over the previous 12 months.
“In an effort to additional improve the quantity of attracted
investments, the Funding Headquarters final 12 months resolved
problematic points for 126 tasks price 70 billion tenge ($144.8
million),” Takiyev mentioned.
Pattern’s evaluation
based mostly on the official figures reveals that agricultural sector
financing grew 18.5% year-on-year in 2025, from an implied base of
roughly 928 billion tenge ($1.9 billion) in 2024. The Kazakh
authorities individually famous that whole help for the
agro-industrial advanced in 2025 reached as much as 1 trillion tenge
($2.06 billion) – ten occasions the extent recorded in 2021, suggesting
the 2025 determine reported by the minister displays a broader
financing envelope reasonably than simply concessional lending alone. For
2026, concessional financing is deliberate to rise additional to 1.5
trillion tenge ($3.1 billion), which might symbolize a 36% uplift
from the 2025 stage.
Within the 2024–2025 advertising 12 months, Kazakhstan’s grain exports
reached 13.4 million tons – the perfect lead to 20 years – with new
markets opened in Egypt, Morocco, and Vietnam, and resumed
shipments to Iran, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan.
A part of the agricultural improvement of Kazakhstan depends on
irrigation methods. A supply from the Eurasian Improvement Financial institution’s
(EDB) Analytical Division instructed Pattern {that a} pilot challenge in Kazakhstan testing
trendy irrigation applied sciences is offering a blueprint for a
potential regional trade in Central Asia.
“The EDB’s $5.3 million grant challenge with UNDP and Kazakhstan’s
Ministry of Water Assets and Irrigation will begin in
Kazakhstan’s southern and jap agricultural areas, the place water
stress is acute – together with Almaty, Zhambyl, Kyzylorda, Turkestan
and Zhetysu areas, with specific give attention to Turkestan and
Kyzylorda. These are the areas the place the influence of contemporary
irrigation applied sciences could be measured rapidly and visibly,” the
supply said.
