Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan bans foreigners to obtain, rent agricultural land plots
- Trend
- 22 February 2018
Foreign companies and private individuals will not be able to take farmland even for temporary use, Astana TV reports.
Kazakhstan-Hungarian fund invests in Kazakhstan dairy
- Dairy Reporter
- 10 January 2018
The CCL Kazakhstan ‘Silk Road’ Agriculture Growth Fund has financed a dairy-commodity farm in the Akmola region of Kazakhstan – Aina dairy farm LLP – for $10.4m, by purchasing a majority stake.
Phoenix looks to India to feed Africa as part of rice expansion
- Bloomberg
- 08 December 2017
The company plans to spend $300 million over the next five years, mostly on increasing processing and production, as well as expanding into farming in Africa, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, Dhawan said.
China's Belt and Road sparks battle of the breadbaskets
- Nikkei
- 28 November 2017
Thanks to the railway and other projects, former Soviet bloc countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan smell opportunity for boosting agricultural exports to China. So does Russia.
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.
Saudi Company allocates more than $90 million to South Kazakhstan poultry farm
- Astana Times
- 03 February 2017
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.
Kazakhstan and China set up agricultural investment fund
- Kazinform
- 30 November 2016
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 extends by five years moratorium on controversial Land Code amendments
- Astana Times
- 23 August 2016
Kazakhstan decided Aug. 18 to extend for five years a recently imposed moratorium on the implementation of controversial amendments to its land law.
Why do Kazakhstanis fear China?
- China in Central Asia
- 23 August 2016
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.
Kazakhstan would extend moratorium on leasing farmland to foreigners
- TCA
- 15 August 2016
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
Kazakhstan’s land reforms
- The Diplomat
- 15 June 2016
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.
Land purchases: tension in Kazakhstan
- Momagri
- 06 June 2016
From late April to late May several public events were attended by between 1,000 and 2,000 people across the country