Ukraine

The World Bank's IFC is providing $250 million in debt financing to Ukraine's leading poultry producer Myronivsky Hliboproduct, which has a land bank of 320,000 ha in Ukraine and 40,000 ha in Russia.

AgroGeneration, l'un des cinq premiers opérateurs agricoles en Ukraine, annonce la vente de sa société d'exploitation AgerAustral en Argentine.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has issued up to $40 million to New Europe Property Fund L.P. managed by NCH Capital Inc. to improve the efficiency of its agricultural projects in Ukraine.

One of the Ukraine's largest farmland owners says "ongoing changes" in Ukraine - which last month signed a political association with the European Union – would "lead to the fundamental transformation of the country".

Black Earth Farming sells 28,000 ha of farmlands in Voronezh, Russia to company owned by Ukrainian oligarch Oleg Bakhmatyuk and US grain trader Cargill.

The company, which changed its name from Alpcot Agro, is considering selling its farms in Ukraine.

As witnessed many times before, Ukraine is once again at a flashpoint for foreign powers to divvy up the “Breadbasket of Europe.”

China acaba de sorprender al mundo al comprar un 5 % de Ucrania para usos agrícolas, superficie equivalente a Galicia, y que supone el 9 % de toda su tierra agraria útil.

Permítanme que, con tres informaciones, les exponga un nuevo y poco conocido argumento para explicar (o ayudar a explicar) la desestabilización de Ucrania y los acontecimientos derivados.

China has plans to lease about 10,000 hectares of agricultural land in Crimea, says Russian news agency ITAR-TASS.

Worldwide, farmland is a hot investment area, but it’s also controversial, opaque, illiquid and sometimes relies on local operation that presents a risk of fraud.

Danish-based Trigon Agri downplayed the risk to agriculture from Ukraine's crisis, saying it would probably herald a "better business environment".