Almarai Company, Saudi Arabia's biggest listed dairy firm, is studying more acquisition opportunities in Egypt after spending $115 million last month to buy an Egyptian company and its farmland
In the case of Uganda, Egypt has shown interest in acquiring 200 hectares for wheat production.
The Sekem Group, Egypt’s foremost producer and exporter of organic food to Europe and the US, is not a typical Egyptian enterprise.
- Financial Times
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17 June 2009
Saudi-based Almarai has agreed to buy Egyptian firm Beyti for $115 million, allowing a new joint venture with Pepsico to set foot in the Arab world's most populous nation. The price tag includes a 75-hectare piece of land.
These arrangements are reminiscent of “banana republics” when many African countries served as plantations for European countries -- but even those did not come with such explicit restrictions and rigidities.
- Business Day
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01 June 2009
The Egyptian government has been allocated up to 2 million acres of land in Uganda to grow wheat and corn for its domestic market
Saudi agricultural company Tabuk Agricultural Development Co has started preparations to invest in food production abroad, driving up its stock.
CNN's John Defterios takes a look at how Middle Eastern countries are scouring the globe for farmland.
The Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation is planning to set up model farms in Uganda. So far, one site of 200 hectares suitable for wheat growing has already been identified at Labora, Koro sub-county in Gulu district.
- The New Vision
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19 May 2009
Le gouvernement devrait lancer, en juin prochain, des appels d'offres pour la vente de terres agricoles à des investisseurs locaux et étrangers, dans le cadre du projet d'une nouvelle zone agro-industrielle, a indiqué le chef de l'Autorité du développement industriel, Amr Assal.
Agricultural investment in Sudan by Arab countries looking to guarantee supplies of staples such as wheat for their people will account for up to 50 percent of all investment in the country from 2010
Egypt may start selling farmland in tenders to foreign and local investors by June as part of a new agro-industrial zones project, the head of the country's Industrial Development Authority said.
