Around 40% of new jobs created in agriculture in N Kazakhstan

PETROPAVLOVSK. KAZINFORM – Up to 20.7 thousand people have been hired and around nine thousand new permanent jobs created since the year’s beginning in North Kazakhstan region, Kazinform correspondent reports.

Of the jobs created, around 40% are in agriculture, 25% in the field of individual entrepreneurship, 7% in construction, and 5% in manufacturing.

The region has fulfilled the employment plan 102.7%, and the instructions on creation of new jobs 103% of the plan.

Regionwide, 11.9 thousand people have been covered by the measures of the National Entrepreneurship Development Plan.

The unemployment rate stood at 4.8% in the region in the second quarter of this year.