Astana, 27 August 2024 (TDI): Kazakhstan and Germany have reached agreements on new projects to enhance agricultural cooperation and ensure efficient irrigation and water conservation during Kazakh Deputy Prime Minister Kanat Bozumbayev’s working visit to Germany.
At the meeting with Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Research Jens Brandenburg, the two sides discussed the possibility of joint training for professional staff in the water sector.
The German side expressed desire to choose a university for future partnership with the new Kazakh National University of Water Management and Irrigation in Taraz.
Bozumbayev and Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture Claudia Müller discussed ways to deliver Kazakh organic and agro-industrial products to the German market.
Today, Germany is one of Kazakhstan’s major agricultural partners. The parties reached a deal on the concept of the Regional Centre for Sustainable Agriculture in Central Asia.
At the meeting with Managing Director of the German Water Partnership (GWP) Boris Greifeneder, the two sides agreed to develop a draft Global Water Partnership Agreement between Germany and Kazakhstan.
GWP is a network of the global water industry in Germany, bringing together over 300 companies in the water sector. Collaboration with GWP is supposed to be a major step toward effective and sustainable water management, enabling the implementation of proven innovative technologies.
Floods Highlight Need for Innovative Approaches
“The consequences of recent floods, unprecedented in their intensity over the past eighty years, have highlighted the need for innovative and new approaches to combat and prevent similar calamities in the future.
We are currently piloting the German digital flood forecasting solution Talsim with the help of the United Nations Development Program”, said Bozumbayev at the panel discussion, during which dozens of German firms expressed their desire to cooperate with Kazakhstan.
He added that we are also ready to study the German experience in dealing with floods and mitigation programs.
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During the meeting with the Head of the National and International Economic Policy at Federal Chancellery Holger Fabig, the two sides exchanged views on industrial and raw materials cooperation and joint development of mineral resources.
Bozumbayev discussed the study of underground water resources in Kazakhstan with Scientific Director of the German Research Centre for Geosciences, Susanne Buiter.
Following the working visit, delegations from both nations inked four agreements on cooperation.
