Iran government official says Iran is currently using some 0.228 million hectares of land for farming in other countries, including Brazil, Kazakhstan, Belarus and Russia and that private Iranian companies have also launched overseas farming projects in Ghana, Armenia and Pakistan.
Belarus and Kazakhstan plan to implement joint projects in the agricultural sector, including a 1,200 head dairy farm in Kazakhstan.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is planning to parcel out vast tracts of prime horticultural land to the Belarusian government in a deal that will see the eastern European nation farming and exporting produce.
China's Drex Food Group is said to be investing US$400m in dairy farms and milk processing facilities in Vitebsk Oblast in Belarus.
A dairy farm designed for a very large number of cattle is supposed to be built in a land plot occupying 45,000ha in Belarus with investment from Chinese company DRex Food Group.
China's DRex Food Group is negotiating with Belarus for the lease of 20,000 hectares for the construction of a 40,000 head dairy farm in the Mahiliou region, Klimavichy district.
Joint Belarusian-Chinese company JSC SP ABC-Invest will implement an investment project in the agricultural industry in Minsk Oblast. The project will upgrade a pig farm (capacity of 11,500 head per year) and meat processing plant among other things.
China Xinjiang Bingtuan Construction & Engineering (Group) Co. Ltd., which is one of the biggest companies in China, has plans to implement a joint investment project in the agricultural sector of Gomel Oblast
Top on the agenda of talks between Belarus and the UAE was the purchase of land to produce grain crops in Belarus for their subsequent export to the United Arab Emirates.
Belarus has fertile land for agriculture and Hassad Food is evaluating different features in such markets like ease of laws
