OREANDA-NEWS  On 02 March was announced, that Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev arrives in Northern Kazakhstan Region with a Working Trip.

The Northern Kazakhstan region is one of the main agricultural regions of Kazakhstan. Grain production forms a major sector of the region’s economy, one of the largest grain exporter in the country.

It is nor accidentally that the program of the President’s trip started with the meeting with agricultural producers at the M.Zhumabayev Square. Nursultan Nazarbayev was interested in the course of preparation for the spring field works and visited an exhibition of modern farming machines. The head of state also participated in the popular feast “The Winter Send Off“.

The head of state then visited a Shapagat new communal market. The President was inquiring about the price of main commodities. The prices of goods supplied directly by local producers are 15-20 percent less than the prices in other markets of the region.

The head of state also visited a new plant for rapid building of structures where he saw the metal structure production. The project costs KZT 170 mln and is being realized by the budget funds channeled through JSC Eurasian Bank under the program “Crediting of the JSC Small Entrepreneurship Development Fund” for realization of the state investment policy.

In the afternoon, Nursultan Nazarbayev also visited the Petropavlovsk Broiler Poultry Factory and the Nauryz-2030 greenhouse complex.

Summing up the trip, the President positively assessed the socioeconomic development of the region. The head of state set specific tasks before the regions – to hold upcoming spring field works on time and on a level with highest agro-technical standards, to strengthen industrial potential and provide implementation of all social programs.