President Tokayev signs law on regulation of agricultural complex

AKIPRESS.COM - President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed the law on amendments to some laws of Kazakhstan on regulation of the agricultural complex, Akorda reports.
The draft law has been considered almost three years. It provides more than 800 amendments to 13 codes and 29 laws of the country including:
- Changing approaches of the insurance system in agriculture: a transition from compulsory to voluntary insurance, as well as from subsidizing insurance payments to subsidizing insurance premiums, is envisaged.
- Differentiation of responsibility for phytosanitary and quarantine measures between the state and agricultural producers;
- Subsidizing the costs of agricultural producers for the purchase of pesticides for phytosanitary and quarantine measures (previously only herbicides were subsidized, now it is also proposed to subsidize insecticides and fungicides to control quarantine objects and especially dangerous harmful organisms);
- The return of control and supervision functions from akimats and customs authorities (control on vehicles) to the department of the authorized body in the field of veterinary medicine;
- Subsidizing part of the costs of a research financing business to engage entrepreneurs in innovation;
- Assigning to the Ministry of Agriculture the function of forming educational grants for agricultural specialties, as well as the mandatory requirement of working out (at least three years) in rural areas for graduates of agricultural universities in agricultural specialties;
- Opportunity for domestic enterprises to process raw materials infected with quarantine weeds, subject to the application of technologies that ensure the deprivation of seeds and fruits of quarantine weeds of viability;
- The ability to use remote sensing data of the Earth, ground surveys and observations when planning monitoring of agricultural land, as well as to determine the categories of agricultural land (change in soil fertility, state of vegetation of natural forage land, soil pollution with pesticides and other waste, change in other soil properties).