Quartz - September 23, 2013
Ukraine’s KSG Agro released a statement today, Sept. 24, denying reports that it had reached an agreement to sell 3 million hectares to a Chinese firm. Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post had reported a deal between KSG Agro and China’s Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, (XPCC) in which China would be able to farm the area for up to 50 years. The paper cited a statement from XPCC as the source of its report. Quartz and other media also reported on the story.
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its statement, the Warsaw-listed agricultural firm said that it is only
working with its Chinese partners on a project to install
drip-irrigation systems over an area of 3,000 hectares in Ukraine next
year. “KSG Agro does not intend or have any right to sell land to
foreigners, including the Chinese,” the statement posted on their
website said. China’s XPCC could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Original (September 23): China has inked a deal to farm three million hectares (paywall),
or about 11, 583 square miles of Ukrainian land over the span of half a
century—which means the eastern European country will give up about 5%
of its total land, or 9% of its arable farmland to feed China’s
burgeoning population.
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