BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan, July 23. President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Zhaparov has signed a decree on measures for the further development of the agro-industrial complex in the country, TurkicWorld reports.
The decree instructs the Cabinet of Ministers to develop measures to:
- Encourage the voluntary unification of farms into cooperatives or other forms of farming;
- Improve and simplify preferential lending for large-scale production and support the development of economically important agro-industrial enterprises;
- Enhance development of pasture lands;
- Implement green biotechnologies, climate adaptation technologies, artificial intelligence, and other modern technologies in agricultural production;
- Increase the use of biological and organic fertilizers and pesticides by 2030;
- Digitalize agricultural production;
- Implement international quality standards in agricultural production, among other initiatives.
Additionally, the decree instructs measures for the attraction of foreign private investments into agricultural production, the preparation of high-quality investment projects for investors, and the tripling of foreign investments in agriculture by 2030.
Furthermore, the Cabinet of Ministers is tasked with:
- Doubling agricultural product exports by 2030;
- Achieving a processing level of at least 50 percent of agricultural products by 2040.
