It is almost impossible to get an agricultural loan. If credit is available, terms are nearly impossible to meet. Supplies and animal health products that we take for granted are largely unavailable to Kazakh farmers. Private farmers will probably have to rely on hand shears for harvesting wool because they cannot buy electric shears. Deworming medicines and vaccines can not be purchased.
Many livestock die or suffer from diseases that are easily treatable with the proper resources.
Though Kazakh agriculture was fully mechanized, parts for machinery are difficult to find. One Kazakh sheep farmer had a square hay baler sitting idle because he could not get baling twine to operate it. While state and collective farms employed many of the latest technologies, private farmers often lack the technical know-how to produce sheep efficiently and profitably. There is no Cooperative Extension Service or other means of transferring technology from research institutions to farms. Research is viewed as purely theoretical.