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Page last updated at 07:49 GMT, Friday, 1 August 2008 08:49 UK

Farmers choose Russia over UK

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Farmers from Britain are heading to Russia to cultivate tens of millions of acres of derelict land.

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes has been to one farm in the Penza co-owned by Colin Hinchley, a farmer from Nottinghamshire.

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