date:Sep 24, 2013
China's official Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps has signed an agreement with Ukrainian agricultural firm KSG Agro, which would see Ukraine provide 100,000 hectares to China. That would eventually rise to 3 million hectares, the South China Morning Post said.
Chinese experts have said China must expand its overseas farming to ensure sufficient food supplies because of its limited land and low productivity.
China accounts for a fifth of the global population but only nine percent of