DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS-BORDER ECONOMIC ZONES AS A FACTOR OF ENSURING FOOD SECURITY IN KAZAKHSTAN

In the context of the transition to a green economy and the need to improve the quality of life of the population,
the problems of ensuring food security are increasing. The importance of the Kazakhstan boundary zones (free
economic zones), aimed at the country's agricultural sector development, is growing in the age of world economic
globalization and comestibles problem aggravation due to the environmental crisis.
Based on the fact that Kazakhstan has a large fertile territory, available environment suitable for the development
of animal husbandry, crop production, it would be necessary to create free economic zones, to develop border
areas oriented to agricultural productivity enhancement. It is a hot topic for ensuring food security of Kazakhstan
and of countries which are scarce of food.
Integrated agricultural structures in the boundary regions should be a factor in the food security of the Republic
of Kazakhstan, which in turn is related to the development of cross-border trade of the country. Boundary regions
play an important role in the development of the Kazakhstan economy considering the overall length of the
borders.
The article considers the transboundedness also as a sphere of implementing cooperative relations in the
agricultural sector in the new integration format conditions. The development of various forms of cooperation
and integration, including free economic zones, will promote the growth of production of certain types of crop-
growing and livestock materials, as well as the way of the import substitution.