October 31, 2014
China ships back first batch of Chinese soy produced in Russia
The China and Russia Agricultural Cooperative Association(CRACA) in Heilongjiang Province announced recently that the first batch of soy produced in Primorye, a Russian region bordering northeast China, has been shipped back.
With China investing heavily in agricultural and bilateral cooperation in this area, many Chinese farmers seeing the opportunities it present, have moved to Primorye to cultivate crops in recent years.
According to CRACA, the China-Russia modern agricultural cooperation zone has a total crop area size of 68,000 hectares, with 14 crop sections, cultivating soy, corn etc. China is expecting to ship back 80,000 tons of soy this year.