With 45% of the population living in rural areas, the poverty gap between rural and urban living is large. The agricultural industry only accounts for 5% of the country’s economy. Farming in Kazakhstan has several hinderances such as 90% of their farm equipment is over 10 years old and needs to be replaced. Growing fruit trees is one option to utilize land without the need for large farming equipment.

As an estimated 770 million people around the world suffer from food insecurity (and rising), nearly 1/3 of all food produced worldwide will be wasted (1.4 billion tons). And the United States leads this area with nearly 40% of it’s food ending up in landfills. This can happen for various reasons including “problems during drying, milling, transporting…