Belarus and Kazakhstan are planning to create a join venture to manufacture dairy products. The agreement on joint development of the project, search for Kazakh partners and sources of financing was reached during the working visit to Kazakhstan of Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky on 8-9 November.

“This time we did not propose Kazakhstan a concrete project or product. We brought a concrete technological map. These are equipment technologies, seeds,” First Deputy Agriculture Minister of Belarus Nadezhda Kotkovets said.

“Kazakhstan currently harvests 10-15 centners of grain crops per hectare. Belarus had such yield long ago. We started from 20 centners per hectare and considered it a low harvest. For the past four or five years we have significantly upgraded our agriculture industry. I think this is something Kazakhstan should go too,” said Nadezhda Kotkovets.

Belarus offers Kazakhstan the projects which can be split into three groups. These are the projects in plant growing, cattle-breeding and training of personnel. “The Kazakh side showed the interest in all projects,” Nadezhda Kotkovets said.

The projects have been approved at the highest level. The next step is to find the operators in Kazakhstan and Belarus who will be working on these projects. The sides are mulling over a possibility to start the production and processing of grain crops on the basis of pedigree seeds and modern system of machines, to set up joint ventures to manufacture machine tools, process milk, to make dairy products from Belarusian milk feed stock in the Mangystau oblast, potato products, and to set up a joint venture to package dried baby milk food.

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