BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 5. Financing for
Kazakhstan’s agricultural sector reached 1.1 trillion tenge ($2.2
billion) in 2025, marking an increase of 172 billion tenge ($355.8
million) over the previous year, Minister of Finance Madi Takiyev
announced during a joint session of parliament.


According to a Kazakh government release, Takiyev also
highlighted a strong upward trend in foreign capital inflows across
the broader economy.


The minister stated that foreign direct investment (FDI) rose
14.5% - an increase of $2.6 billion - to bring the country's total
FDI volume to $20.5 billion. He noted that the government has taken
a proactive approach to maintaining this momentum by clearing
regulatory bottlenecks for major projects over the past year.


"In order to further increase the volume of attracted
investments, the Investment Headquarters last year resolved
problematic issues for 126 projects worth 70 billion tenge ($144.8
million)," Takiyev said.


Trend's analysis
based on the official figures shows that agricultural sector
financing grew 18.5% year-on-year in 2025, from an implied base of
approximately 928 billion tenge ($1.9 billion) in 2024. The Kazakh
government separately noted that total support for the
agro-industrial complex in 2025 reached up to 1 trillion tenge
($2.06 billion) - ten times the level recorded in 2021, suggesting
the 2025 figure reported by the minister reflects a broader
financing envelope rather than just concessional lending alone. For
2026, concessional financing is planned to rise further to 1.5
trillion tenge ($3.1 billion), which would represent a 36% uplift
from the 2025 level.







In the 2024–2025 marketing year, Kazakhstan's grain exports
reached 13.4 million tons - the best result in 20 years - with new
markets opened in Egypt, Morocco, and Vietnam, and resumed
shipments to Iran, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan.


Part of the agricultural development of Kazakhstan relies on
irrigation systems. A source from the Eurasian Development Bank’s
(EDB) Analytical Department told Trend that a pilot project in Kazakhstan testing
modern irrigation technologies is providing a blueprint for a
potential regional industry in Central Asia.


"The EDB’s $5.3 million grant project with UNDP and Kazakhstan’s
Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation will start in
Kazakhstan’s southern and eastern agricultural regions, where water
stress is acute - including Almaty, Zhambyl, Kyzylorda, Turkestan
and Zhetysu regions, with particular focus on Turkestan and
Kyzylorda. These are the areas where the impact of modern
irrigation technologies can be measured quickly and visibly," the
source stated.