The aim of the project is to support the Kazakh government in the expansion of milk production with specific emphasis on modern, sustainable, competitive and animal welfare oriented production systems.

The cooperation project between Germany and Kazakhstan is funded on the German side by the Federal German Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL).

The consortium, comprising of ADT Project Consulting GmbH (lead partner) and its partner IAK Agrar Consulting GmbH was commissioned to carry out the project on behalf of BMEL.

On the Kazakh side, key partners are the Department of Production and Processing Livestock Products of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan as political partner and the Research and Innovation Center of Animal Husbandry in Nur-Sultan as well as the Agrarian Credit Corporation (ACC) as institutional key partners.

During the first months of project implementation, up to 15 dairy cattle farms will be selected together with the Kazakh project partners in the northern region of Kazakhstan as pilot farms. The capacity building activities are in particular directed on the regions North Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Akmola and Kostanay. The main focus is on small and medium-sized commercial oriented dairy farms which want to expand and at the same time improve their dairy farming business. But also newcomer in small and medium-sized commercial dairy farm business can be supported as pilot farm. Those pilot farms will be intensive consulted and the staff trained by the project to strengthen production processes, production standards and finally the output of high quality milk.

The experience gained from the intensive consultation and capacity building activities with the selected pilot farms and the associated optimization of the production systems will be continuously used to strengthen the advisory skills and competences of the institutional project partner organizations in Kazakhstan as well as to facilitate the investments in the sector for an integrated, sustainable, competitive development of the dairy farming sector in Kazakhstan. Thereby the project will support the successful implementation of the long-term sectoral program for the development of dairy farming for 2018-2027 of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

For more details see: www.kfm-kasachstan.net