Environmental policy and administrative management

Lands degradation, absence of sowing lands and good pastures bring to a stop in local settlements development. Main income locals usually get from livestock sector and animal produce, but poor forage result in livestock weight reduction, decreasing income from animal sales and animal produce sales. Activities on pastures restoration, right lands management, and forage reservation could help people stabilize the situation and develop sustainably. Project aim: Introduction of innovation techniques of sustainable lands and pasture management for lands degradation decreasing Project tasks: - Creation of cultural pastures with natural herbage - Restoration of long-distance channel Kirovsky (7km) for pastures watering - Increasing public awareness and experience disseminating Project results: - Restored 7km of long-distance water canal - On Tekshe area (125 ha) on locals allotments cultural pastures created for twenty-four-hour pasturing - On Jelius area (10-15 km from the settlement) house for stockkeeper, wells (4 items), corrals built - Developed the scheme called Agropastures , which introduction allow project participants get additionally live weight gain for cattle - Formed drove of 500-600 livestock units and organized pasturing on Agropasture territory - Decreased load on pastures, degradation processes localized, natural herbage conservation process is going on, increased feeds productivity and as a result increased locals income - Livestock sector productivity increasing resulted in increasing the social and economic situation of Ulken Shigan settlement, where 5600 people live and about 525 farms situated. About 30% of local community members first year and about 70% second year benefited from the project realization - Issued recommendations on creation of Agropastures in conditions of state s foothill steppe zones on Kazakh language

Kazakhstan