The Arkalyk plant, which was commissioned in Kazakhstan 3 years ago according to the industrialization map, does not work at full capacity due to a lack of raw materials, QazaqZerno notes.

The Arkalyk plant lacks raw materials, because farmers do not hand over cattle for processing due to low prices per a head of animals. As a result, the production capacity of the meat processing plant is involved only by 10-15%.

Torgai steppes are ideal area for the development of livestock. There are about 100 thousand head of cattle. Some of the cattle belong to peasants who do not want to cooperate with the Arkalyk plant even though it has a convenient location and good logistic access.

A farmer from the Dzhangeldinsky district told why he would better hold the livestock at home than sell it for processing to a local processing facility. According to him, entrepreneurs from the south who buy cows from him pay 190 thousand tenge, and at the local meat processing plant they pay 140-150 thousand tenge per cattle head. Owners of a meat processing enterprise cannot accept cattle at a higher price, as this will lead to an increase in the product prime, as a result, to an increase in prices for it in the market.

Businessmen were not desperate and found a way to solve the problem with raw materials. At the Arkalyk processing plant, they are going to open a feedlot for 5 thousand head. Two hundred and fifty head of cattle and one hundred and ten head of horses have been kept already at fattening, and by May another 500 head of breeding cattle will be brought in. If everything succeeds, then the meat processing plant will reach full capacity in two years, producing 10 Mt of sausage and canned meat per day.

Source: QazaqZerno