Second place in the country in the production of chicken eggs takes Karaganda region, giving way only to Almaty region. The region’s share in the national volume is 16.4%, informed the correspondent of the IA “Kazakh-Zerno” in the regional department of statistics.
Meanwhile, production volumes are constantly increasing. For example, for the first two months of 2014 compared with the same period last year, an increase was 8.1%. Thus, eggs on production growth rates outstripped all other kinds of agricultural products.
If we talk about numbers, then in January and February in the region were produced 89.5 million eggs.
The main producers of chicken eggs in the region are agricultural enterprises, whose share in the regional volume is 95.3%. Increased in production is due to growth in population of hens by 6.3%.
More than 61.4 % of the total egg production falls on the Bukhar-Zhyrau district, 37.6% – on Abay district, 1% – on Zhezkazgan.
Growth in production of chicken eggs is observed in 16 regions of the area. The greatest increase over the corresponding period last year was fixed in Satpayev ( 5.2 times) and in Temirtau (2.4 times).