In this article, comprehensive studies have been conducted on the effective use of natural pastures in conditions of vertical zonality in the project territory of Batyr Korday district (Zhambyl region). The data presented shows how important it is to comply with the norms and loads of pastures for further preservation of pasture yields and prevention of degradation. Consequently, there is a need to develop effective and scientifically-based systems of pasture turnover and the introduction of measures to restore pasture lands in the Zhambyl region, taking into account the peculiarities of the climate and geo-botanical indicators. Pasture lands make up about seventy percent of the entire territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The potential productivity of these lands reaches twenty-five and more million tons of fodder units. Pasture is the main renewable forage plant resource. It should be emphasized that haphazard use has led to the fact that land degradation processes occur on 27.5 million hectares of pastures, feed capacity decreases, biological diversity decreases, erosion processes manifest themselves, etc. All this requires the development of science-based approaches to the exploitation of pasture resources, compliance with the basic elements of rational grazing. The current situation may have a twofold path of development. The first way is the absence of strategic initiatives for the effective use of pastures for small producers will lead to a final reduction in the feed capacity of the pastures used. And the second way is small and large-scale use of the huge forage potential of the restored pastures.