Daewoo says it will grow corn and palm oil on huge tracts 广阔的地面 of Madagascan farmland that the company has leased 租借 for 99 years.

This ambitious scheme 雄心勃勃的计划 will cover 1.2 million hectares 公顷 and is part of South Korea's plans to ensure its access to food supplies in the coming years.

The scheme is designed to provide more than half the country's imports of corn when it's fully operational in 15 years' time.

A number of Asian countries have been attempting to ensure 确保 their access to food supplies since unrest 骚动 over food broke out earlier this year.

And some African countries have been keen to receive overseas investment 海外投资.

Angola has offered farmland for development 发展 and Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, said he's eager 急切地 to see foreign companies take a stake 整理 in his country's agriculture 农业.