Environmental policy and administrative management

Project aim: Creation of highly productive forage grasslands on degraded lands and use of water saving technologies for solving socio-economic problem of oralmans on the example of Shygys settlement in East Kazakhstan Oblast Project tasks: - Training of rural production cooperative on rational use of lands, conducting demonstrational seminar and promotion of project s achievements - Demonstration of drip irrigation system as a water saving technology for prevention of degradation processes on homestead land of needy families - Introduction of the remote livestock farming scheme on remote pasture in foothills of Ayirtau for keeping oralman s cattle and demonstration of sustainable pastures management - Speeded up productivity of unused degraded lands by growing Lucerne with the use of irrigating and enclosure of irrigated site with plantations of Zaisan saxaul Project results: - Increased income of local population - Created additional job places for plants cultivation and organizing of rotational grazing - Locals provided with fresh vegetables and fruits as well as with feed for own cattle - Implemented drop irrigation system on households of 10 poor families of Shigis village that provided water consumption decreasing more than 10 times - Created infrastructure for organization of seasonal rotational grazing and about 70% of locals cattle send to remote pasture - Created irrigated site on 200 ha on the right bank of of Kainak river with planting 150 ha of Lucerne that allowed increase productivity of degraded lands 5 times. On 25 ha grow vegetables and on 25 ha - young plants of fruit trees by the funds of interest holders

Kazakhstan