The impressive experience of beet growers from the Lipetsk region extremely delighted farmers from Kazakhstan. Today, Kazakh farmers intend to maximally learn from the experience of their Lipetsk colleagues in order to develop a potentially successful national program for the development of the sugar industry in their country.
Lipetsk beet growers invited Kazakhs to visit several of their sugar enterprises. The delegation from Kazakhstan was headed by Azat Sultanov - the head of the Department of Crop Production and Processing of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan.
According to him, gathering in the Lipetsk region, he discussed the upcoming meeting with the Kazakh authorities and received a clear statement: on the basis of the meeting, build a strategy to increase the yield of sugar beet in Kazakhstan.
“In addition, we were instructed to modernize and bring sugar beet processing capacity to a new level,” Sultanov reported. “The experience of our colleagues from the Lipetsk region inspires confidence, we place much hope on this trip!”
Discussion of key points took place in the form of a round table. Guests from Kazakhstan were greeted by the deputy head of the administration of the Lipetsk region, Nikolay Tagintsev.
"For us, it is not a secret that 500 thousand tons of sugar are consumed in Kazakhstan,” Tagintsev noted. “We in the Lipetsk region produce 900 thousand tons per year. That is, half of the sugar produced in the region is enough to meet the needs big republic. "
The deputy head of the administration assured that he would do his best to promote the development of sugar beet growing in Kazakhstan and called on foreign colleagues for a long and fruitful cooperation.
