Agro outsourcing target: 10,000 hectares in Kazakhstan
- Financial Tribune
- 13 June 2017
Iran's South Khorasan Province aims to get hold of 10,000 ha of farmland in Kazakhstan for its own food production. Ukraine is also being targeted.
Iran's South Khorasan Province aims to get hold of 10,000 ha of farmland in Kazakhstan for its own food production. Ukraine is also being targeted.
Saudi Arabian Al Ramez International Group will finance a poultry farm in the South Kazakhstan region and is willing to invest in other agricultural areas, such as cultivating sheep and cattle.
Cooperation Memorandum signed between JSC National Export and Investments Agency KAZNEX INVEST of the Ministry for Investments and Development and the Asia-Pacific Food Fund (APOFCO)
Kazakhstan decided Aug. 18 to extend for five years a recently imposed moratorium on the implementation of controversial amendments to its land law.
The earliest land protests took place in 2003 when Kazakhstan entered into an agreement with China to rent 7,000 hectares of land – a deal that would have employed 3,000 Chinese workers.
Members of Kazakhstan’s Land Reform Commission voted for an extension, until the end of 2021, of the moratorium on leasing Kazakh agricultural land to foreigners
While there is near consensus that foreigners should not have the right to own farmland in Kazakhstan, opinions are deeply divided on the issue of granting leases to foreigners.
From late April to late May several public events were attended by between 1,000 and 2,000 people across the country
Protesters fear that the changes would make it easier for large Chinese agribusinesses to take control of vast swaths of farmland.
La population du Kazakhstan se mobilise contre un projet de réforme agraire permettant aux étrangers, notamment à la Chine, de louer des terres pour 25 ans au lieu de 10 actuellement.
Kazakhstan's government, facing a wave of unrest over farmland privatisation plans, invited some opponents of the reform to join a commission set up on Thursday to review it.
Kazakh National Economy Minister Yerbolat Dossayev resigned on May 5 after almost two weeks of protests against amendments to the Land Code that critics say would enable foreigners to buy more land.
Russia seizes assets of agricultural firm AgroTerra
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