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Companies listed on European exchanges have been acquiring large amounts of farmland in Russia

Les compagnies étrangères cotées dans les bourses européennes achètent activement des terres agricoles en Russie

Alpcot Agro is currently in control of 128,800 hectares of arable land in Russia and wants to control 200,000 hectares by the end of 2008.

Since 1999, The Ingleby Company has bought about 17 farms. The company runs just under 20,000ha of land with 130,000 stock units, most of which are sheep and cattle.