Mursaly farm irrigates 300 hectares with sprinklers in Turkistan Region

The farm began switching to sprinkler irrigation in 2022 and plans to add drip systems for its cornfields.

Mursaly farm in the Baidibek district of Turkistan Region grows wheat and corn on 500 hectares. Five sprinkler machines now irrigate 300 hectares, and the farm plans to introduce drip irrigation for corn.

Source: Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of Kazakhstan

A sprinkler machine watering an agricultural field. — A sprinkler system irrigates fields at Mursaly farm. Illustrative photo. Photo: USDAgov / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain

Mursaly farm in the Baidibek district of Turkistan Region grows wheat and corn across 500 hectares. Its fields are irrigated using domestically made sprinkler systems.

“We began switching to sprinkler irrigation in 2022. Since then, we have installed five machines to irrigate 300 hectares. We also plan to introduce drip irrigation systems in the cornfields,” farm chairman Talgat Aripbayev said.

Kazakhstan currently has seven domestic factories producing sprinkler machines and drip-irrigation equipment.

To encourage water conservation in agriculture, the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation raised reimbursement for farmers’ costs of buying and installing water-saving systems from 50% to 80%. Subsidies for irrigation water when those systems are used have increased to 85%.

The total area in Kazakhstan using water-saving technologies has reached about 702,300 hectares. Since the beginning of the year, modern irrigation systems have been introduced on a further 158,000 hectares of irrigated land.

Translated from Russian using artificial intelligence. Source: Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation of Kazakhstan

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Mursaly farm irrigates 300 hectares with sprinklers in Turkistan Region

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