Astana. December 15. Kazakhstan Today - Kazakhstan does not intend to lease China its land, but intends to create a joint agricultural manufacture. Vice Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan, Armand Evniev, said in an interview to journalists after the meeting concerning agriculture development, the agency reports.

The head of state at the last session of the Council of Foreign Investors informed that China had requested to lease 1 million hectares of farmland for cultivation of rape and soya.

According to A. Evniev, "it is not a lease, it is a question of joint manufacture. In this case, it is soya and later it will be corn and rape," he specified.

"The co-production project will start in the beginning of 2010."

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