Food supply of the population of the Republic of Kazakhstan: current trends and potential opportunities

The study was conducted within the framework of program-targeted funding by the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan "Development of the concept and mechanisms for balanced territorial economic and social development of Kazakhstan." The topic of this article is updated by the strategic importance of the country's food security, due to the level of food industry development, as well as the validity of food exports. The goal is to analyze the balance of the needs of the republic with volume of production of socially significant products of food industry and its grouping by self-sufficiency categories. Methods – abstract-logical, monographic, graphic, comparative analysis, grouping. Results – the study is aimed at analyzing the dynamics of the level of self-sufficiency of social products in terms of the needs of domestic market, production, imports and exports. The factors influencing on the growth and decline in the supply of domestic food have been identified. To identify the degree of strength of meeting the demand for groups of goods, they were grouped into categories adopted in accordance with the methodological recommendations on the system of indicators for assessing the degree of physical and economic accessibility to sufficient safe food in the CIS countries in quantitative terms. The presented results of grouping make it possible to determine changes in the structure of provision of domestic market with socially significant food products. Conclusions – the authors identified special commodity groups according to the degree of satisfaction of the internal needs of the population; a number of organizational and economic solutions that are of interest to public and departmental authorities are proposed, as well as management of processing enterprises. The results of the developments can be used in formation of policy documents on development of food industry in Kazakhstan.

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