India

Reports emerge that former workers of the Karuturi flower farm in Kenya, and their children, are in hardship after the farm was placed under liquidation and 3,000 workers sent packing.

India will enter into a government-to-government pact with Mozambique to buy pulses from a network of farmers, for export back to India, without taking control of their land.

New report for Acord International says land grabs are not a generalised feature of Brazilian, Chinese and Indian investment in African agriculture but some do raise major concerns

India, one of the world’s largest consumers and importers of pulses, may soon take over agricultural land in Africa and Myanmar to meet growing demand in its domestic market.

Un collectif sénégalais entame le combat contre SEN INDIA qui a pris 5000 ha pour faire de la pomme de terre et la pastèque et veut délocaliser les villageois.

India’s plan to lease farm land in Mozambique, Tanzania and Malawi to grow pulses for domestic consumers is not the first such project

The government of India is looking at the possibility of leasing land in Mozambique to grow pulses.

More than 200 former employees, waving placards and chanting slogans, accuse the company of failing to settle their dues before the company is taken over by a new management.

The Export and Import (EXIM) Bank of India provided $35 million towards the establishment of the $36.5 million Komenda Sugar Factory project, which includes the development of 3,000 hectares of irrigable land.

Ramakrishna Karuturi has mocked plans to sell off his Naivasha-based flower farm, saying the liquidation procedure will not affect his ownership of the land, which is held through separate subsidiaries.

One of the country’s largest flower farms Karuturi limited has officially been closed, with receiver managers and liquidators moving in to wind up the farm.

Kenya’s biggest flower firm is set to go under the auctioneers’ hammer, as owners of the Indian multinational failed to defend the winding up petition filed in court by creditors.