THE COUNTRY’S FOOD SECURITY AS ONE OF THE COMPONENTS OF THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY OF KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract

The article discusses the problems of food security in Kazakhstan. The problem of food security is relevant
for any country, as it is the basis of providing high-quality food products to people. Therefore, consideration of
various aspects of food security is of interest, both for the scientific community and among the general public.
The aim of the research is to analyze materials, statistical data for the last 8 years on the formation of agrarian
and economic foundations of food security in Kazakhstan; to identify trends in the development of the country’s
agricultural production, and ways foreign countries solve this problem. The factors ensuring food security of
the country were analyzed in sufficient detail. It is proved that in recent years there has been an intensification
of competition within the framework of the Eurasian Economic Union. The practical importance of the work is
specific recommendations for strengthening food security in Kazakhstan, in particular, proposals for increasing
the production of beef. The main method of the research is the method of materialistic dialectics with the use of
other methods, in particular, the method of comparative analysis of the statistical data of food consumption by
the population of Kazakhstan, the historical and logical method in the formation of the agrarian and economic
foundations of food security of Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union, as well as the methods of induction and deduction.
During the analysis of consumption of various types of food products by the population of Kazakhstan,
it was revealed that for a number of important food products, such as meat and fish products, milk and dairy
products, eggs and vegetables, the population of Kazakhstan as a whole meets its needs only by half, according
to the standards set by the World Health Organization. The paper deals with the main problems of food
security in Kazakhstan, which allows it to form the agrarian policy of our country on its basis. The statistical data
presented in the paper are reliable; the conclusion is based on the works of Kazakhstan and foreign sources. This
work contributes to the field of economic knowledge. The agrarian and economic foundations of Kazakhstan’s
food security are revealed in the work; the ways of forming these bases are determined. The growing contradictions
in the competitive struggle for the production of agricultural products within the framework of the Eurasian
Economic Union are demonstrated.