Kazakhstan to build crop-duster replacements for An-2

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/08/24/346446/kazakhstan-to-build-crop-duster-replacements-for-an-2.html

Kazakhstan is to set up a production plant to produce the new Farmer 2 and Farmer 500 multirole utility aircraft, designed as replacements for the ageing Antonov An-2 crop duster, as well as a new aircraft known as Sunkar from scratch.

The new facility plant, costing 3.75 billion tenge ($25 million), will be in Novouzenka in Kazakhstan's Karaganda region and will be the product of a partnership between KazAviaSpektr and Russia's MVEN, a Kazan-based manufacturer that produces composite-structure light aircraft, including the Farmer 2 crop-duster, and parachute-rescue systems for light aircraft.