This time for Africa: Africa calling Indian farmers
- PTI
- 11 August 2010
ASSOCHAM, India's apex industry body, has sent a proposal to the external affairs ministry offering to act as facilitator to help Indian farmers get farmland in Africa.
ASSOCHAM, India's apex industry body, has sent a proposal to the external affairs ministry offering to act as facilitator to help Indian farmers get farmland in Africa.
Indian floriculture companies are moving into other agri-products in the world's second-largest continent.
Interviews about the current land grab in the Oromia and Gambela regions with some of the presenters at the London workshop.
A group of farmers from Punjab are planning to take 1 lakh hectare land on lease in the African nation of Ethiopia for cultivation.
In the last few months, the process seems to be speeding up with more and more Indian farmers checking out investments in Africa.
La voix de l’Anywaa Survival Organisation s’est élevée contre la politique de cession des terres adoptée par le gouvernement éthiopien.
Anywaa Survival Organisation's critique of the Ethiopian government's video presentation of rice land grab in the Gambela region.
Près de 300 investisseurs étrangers cherchent à obtenir de la terre en Ethiopie. Qui sont ces nouveaux arrivants, quels sont les bénéfices pour les paysans locaux et pour l’Etat éthiopien ?
Private equity firms like Rabo Equity Advisors and IL&FS Investment Managers may be in talks with Karuturi.
Participants denounced land grabbing and agreed to co-ordinate their efforts globally to campaign to STOP the irresponsible greedy practice by the transnational conglomerates.
Dr S. Ayyappan, Director-General of the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), calls on Indians to rent farmland in Ethiopia to produce pulses for export to India.
The Addis government shows scant regard for the potential local impact of massive Indian investment in floriculture and biofuels.
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