Food industry of Kazakhstan: current state and ways to improve the efficiency of enterprises

At present, the guidelines outlined in the long-term concept of the republic's development set the task of finding new methods to improve economic efficiency by increasing competitiveness of manufactured products for domestic food industry enterprises. Food sector is significantly influenced by the emergence of new markets in global arena, innovative technologies that contribute to emergence of innovations and more advanced tools for organizing supply chains.

The goal is to assess the current state and potential of food industry of Kazakhstan, develop measures to improve its competitive advantages.

Methods - integrated approach based on data collection, including review of scientific literature on the topic of the study and its adaptation to the tasks, comparative, system analysis and logical generalization to assess dynamics of food production.

Results - the current situation in the processing complex is analyzed, factors influencing production, export and import of agricultural products are determined. The problems and prospects for its renewal are identified. The directions for necessary structural changes concerning food industry are proposed, including expansion of innovative activities.

Conclusions - food segment is very important area of the country's economy, since production of food products directly affects economic and food security of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is noted that in order to expand food range, it will be necessary to modernize existing capacities and create our own raw material base, which will contribute to the growth of product profitability. As proposal, opinion was expressed that necessary condition for the development of food and processing industry is introduction of the latest biotechnologies, including import substitution, digital transformation, generation of platforms for interaction between all participants in this market, flexible response to progressive trends in the industry structure.

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