funding for research and development has also increased since the mid s in particular as a result of financing directed to kazagroinnovation since compared to research and development agricultural education continues to receive significantly lesser funds although these expenditures have been steadily rising infrastructure expenditures varied during the analysed period with the highest spending taking place between and when a large project to improve irrigation and drainage systems was implemented however towards the end of the s the funds directed for infrastructure improvement decreased substantially figure illustrates the importance of each component in the total support to the agricultural sector in kazakhstan