"... We really need your Far East ..."

[Частный детектив Краснослободцев Дмитрий Николаеви]

Politics are dirtier than underwear.

 

[Детективное агентство ИКС-Инфо.]

: shock: Ermak turns over in his coffin ...

 

[Частный детектив. Владивосток.]

: shock: Ermak turns over in his coffin ...

And with it Semyon Shelkovnikov, Poyarkov, Khabarov, Vitus Bering, Nevelskaya, Muravyov-Amursky, tens of thousands of other worthy people!

Pid ... r Kremlin! Sorry, but I can’t find other words ...

 

[Детективное агентство ИКС-Инфо.]

: shock: Ermak turns over in his coffin ...

And with it Semyon Shelkovnikov, Poyarkov, Khabarov, Vitus Bering, Nevelskaya, Muravyov-Amursky, tens of thousands of other worthy people!

Pid ... r Kremlin! Sorry, but I can’t find other words ...

I absolutely agree with you, Vadim:!::!::!:

 

[Детективное агентство. Москва. Арбат.]

A holy place is never empty...

 

[Частный детектив. Владивосток.]

Far East for rent

Far East for rent
Ministry of Economic Development proposes leasing Far East lands to APEC partners
Russia is ready to discuss the lease of agricultural land in the Far East
- 01/26/12 9:31 p.m. -

TEXT: Olga Tanas

Russia is ready to discuss with the APEC partners the lease of agricultural land in the Far East. The program of 20 projects involves investments of tens of billions of dollars, according to the Ministry of Economic Development. Interest in the territories showed Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and Japan.

Russia will offer some 20 APEC member countries - Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and Japan - about 20 investment projects for agricultural development in the regions of the Far East, Deputy Economic Development Minister Andrei Slepnev said on Thursday. “We gave a number of ready-made investment projects developed and proposed by the regions. We propose organizing the processing of agricultural products in Russia and exporting it to our countries, ”Slepnev explained.

For development, Asian partners are offered large areas of Russian territory - on some projects, up to 150-200 thousand hectares. The deputy minister estimates the volume of investments at tens of billions of dollars.

“Given the size of investments, the investment should be long-term, this is not five years,” Slepnev emphasized, adding that long-term leases are legally allowed in Russia.

Among the possible regions, Primorsky Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Amur Region, where there are conditions for the production of soy, rice and other types of grain, are still being discussed.

“We have free areas, free opportunities that are not being used now, because there are not so many people. These are resources of comparable value to some hydrocarbon deposits. They must be used in order to generate income and create a platform for other projects, ”said Slepnev.

In Eastern Siberia and the Far East, up to 50% of arable land is not used, and climate change, according to expert estimates, will lead to an increase in the yield of major crops by 11-14% in the next 30-50 years, a leading researcher told Gazeta.Ru Center for Asian and Pacific Studies IMEMO Evgeny Kanaev.

According to the deputy minister, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Agriculture, together with the regions, began developing investment projects for APEC from the middle of last year.

Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and Japan so far show only “theoretical” interest, requests were from Singapore, which “would like to participate in this,” the deputy minister said.

According to an informed source, the practice of leasing agricultural land in the Far East is already being implemented as part of smaller investment projects by Chinese agricultural companies. In particular, in the territory of the Jewish Autonomous Region, vegetable plantations of Chinese farmers are located.

Population is growing in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, and the possibilities for introducing new lands and water resources for irrigation into agricultural circulation are limited; the size of arable land is declining; over the past ten years, annual growth in wheat and rice yields has amounted to only 1%, and corn - 2%; due to the growth of incomes, the population began to consume more meat, more fodder is needed for animal husbandry; The development of the automotive industry requires more agricultural products to produce biofuels, especially in the face of high oil prices, Kanaev explained.

The topic of food security will be one of the priorities at the September APEC forum in Vladivostok. According to Slepnev, as part of its chairmanship, Russia plans to discuss the regulation of food markets, measures to reduce speculation in agricultural products, to promote the introduction of new technologies, and to provide mutual humanitarian assistance. “Russia will propose initiatives on the possibility of access to foreign investment in agricultural production. For our part, we will be ready to provide opportunities for investors from the region to invest in Russian agribusiness in the Far Eastern and Pacific regions, ”Slepnev said, recalling that unlike some countries, agricultural land is not considered strategic objects and there are no restrictions on investment in agribusiness.

Problems may arise with labor. “Russia will not discuss the issue of foreign labor in the context of a certain opening of borders for all. This is for discussion at the bilateral level and with specific projects, ”said Slepnev.

But their labor resources may not be enough, and they are uncompetitive in comparison with the inhabitants of China. “The Russian labor force in the Primorsky Territory and the Amur Region is a very marginalized population with a high degree of alcoholization and not very effective labor skills. Compared to the Chinese, it is very expensive, ”said Natalya Zubarevich, director of regional programs at the Independent Institute for Social Policy. According to the expert, Russia has one competitive advantage - land, but with an undeveloped infrastructure, electricity shortages and poor moorings

Read in full: [DLMURL] https://www.gazeta.ru/business/2012/01/26/3975765.shtml [/ DLMURL]

Something like that...

 

[Евгений СБ]

Yeah. There will be no war with China. We ourselves will invite them to work, and then we ourselves will go over the Ural ridge, leaving them everything.

 

[Симферополь]

Millions of hectares of Russian territory soon can be transferred for long term rent to neighbors

Probably, the need has ripened for the state program of agrarian resettlement according to the Stolypin type, ”Shandybin emphasized.

It’s interesting, but is it not for Mr. Analyst Shandybin himself to take a weak ride “through the Stolypin program” to the Far East? Well, so that there the land is not empty ...

 

[Частный детектив. Владивосток.]

FIRST RENT, THEN EXCLUSION?
Rosbalt, St. Petersburg, 02/14/2012
The prospect of transferring land in the Russian Far East to the use of foreign states has caused mixed reactions from experts. A proposal to discuss the possibility of attracting Russia’s APEC partners to lease agricultural land was now made by the former Deputy Minister of Economic Development Andrei Slepnev, who from February 1 joined the formed supranational bodies of the Eurasian Economic Community.
The Slepnev initiative, as reported in the media, is about 20 agricultural investment projects, according to which Japan, Vietnam, Singapore and Thailand provide significant areas for lease (150-200 thousand hectares) in the Primorsky Territory, Khabarovsk Territory and the Amur Region.
Although specific details of these projects were not announced, this idea caused considerable concern among some representatives of the expert community.
"This proposal is somewhat inadvertent and is knocked out of the general outline of statements by the country's top leadership on the development of the Far East, because it does not take into account all possible consequences," Igor Romanov, head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, told Rosbalt. According to him, in this already not densely populated region there is a constant outflow of the population, largely due to difficult living conditions and the lack of a sufficient number of jobs.
The question arises as to whether the implementation of such initiatives will lead to even greater growth of internal migration of local residents.
“Leasing land for a long-term lease is an extreme option and contains serious risks of alienation of territories in the future,” says Igor Nikolaev, director of the Strategic Analysis Department of the FBK audit campaign.
In turn, the head of the Greenpeace program for specially protected natural areas, Mikhail Kreindlin, warns that involving Far Eastern lands, the hallmark of which is their bogging, in intensive economic activity (and if the lease is made by foreign companies, then most likely the economic activity will be intense) may lead to the loss of their natural value. Moreover, do not forget about the fire hazard - for example, in the Amur Region, up to 5-7 thousand hectares can be “crossed” by fires. These fires are not extinguished and are not taken into account, since there is no real system to combat them in these territories. Thus, if these territories are rented out, they will be drained (and there are practically no other options), naturally, their fire hazard will only increase and the fire system will most likely not be built.
Any intensive agricultural production must be limited, including by controlling the use of various fertilizers, including mineral and chemical ones. However, the question of who will exercise control over agricultural activities in the event these projects are implemented remains open. Failure to take such measures can lead to serious pollution and land depletion after the lease, as happens in the Jewish Autonomous Region, where the Chinese rent about 500 thousand hectares of land and use a large amount of chemicals to process it.
Since we are talking about China, it seems somewhat strange that there is no mention of this country among the possible tenants. According to Igor Nikolaev, if China were on this list, it would cause the public "significantly greater rejection."
In early autumn 2011, a similar land lease proposal was put forward by the authorities of the Amur Region of the DPRK government delegation, which is not a member of APEC. Several hundred thousand hectares of land were offered to North Korea, with an initial rental cost of 50 rubles per year per hectare. It should be noted here that the proposed preferential conditions for foreign investors are not comparable with the situation that most Russian entrepreneurs in the Far East find themselves in: the process of obtaining land for rent is fraught with bureaucratic difficulties and takes a lot of time. Therefore, as noted by the Director General of the Center for Anti-Corruption Research and Initiatives of Transparency International Elena Panfilova, it is important that tenders for land for rent are held openly, on a competitive basis and without violating current Russian legislation.

 

[Детективное агентство Тула]

The deeper we dive into this topic, the more there are more than ALL DIFFICULT questions ...