Horse sausage is very popular. Camels are a traditional livestock for Central Asia. They are kept for meat, milk and fiber, as well as a beast of burden. Privatization In Kazakhstan, state and collective farms are gradually giving way to smaller, private farms. Private farmers are generally given both steppe for grazing and irrigated land for growing crops.
Crops grown in South Kazakhstan include corn, small grain, hay, melons and cotton.
It goes without saying that farmers face many challenges and difficulties as they attempt to overcome the legacy left behind from seventy years of communism. In many ways, Kazakh farmers are like the homesteaders that settled the American frontier. They are tilling new soil, unaware of the many obstacles that lie ahead of them. The first new concept Kazakh farmers must grasp is producing for a profit. This is because on state enterprises where these farmers previously worked, production and management decisions were made by a central bureaucracy which ignored market signals and profit indicators.