• Indonesia says land acquisition stalls Binladin rice investment
    • Reuters
    • 26 October 2009

    The Saudi Binladin Group's $4.3 billion planned investment in Papua, east Indonesia, to develop rice fields has stalled because of problems acquiring land from local people.

  • Au Timor, les investissements contre l'autosubsistance
    • Le Courrier
    • 13 October 2009

    Un accord entre le gouvernement et une entreprise indonésienne, la GTLeste Biotech, est en gestation depuis le mois de mars. Il est question d'un bail de location – renouvelable – de cinquante ans pour 100 000 hectares de terre destinés à la production de canne à sucre.

  • K S Oils acquires more land in Indonesia
    • Commodity Online
    • 07 October 2009

    K S Oils, one of India’s leading integrated edible oil food companies Wednesday announced further acquisition of 53,000 acres of land for palm oil plantations in Indonesia. This brings the company’s land bank in Indonesia to 1,38,000 acres [56,000 ha], the largest owned by any Indian company.

  • Japan ready to fund agriculture activities in Merauke
    • Tempo Interactive
    • 05 October 2009

    Several companies like Mitsubishi Corporation are interested in promoting Merauke as a new rice barn in Asia.

  • Indonesia to restrict foreign investment in food sector
    • Reuters
    • 01 October 2009

    The government is preparing a regulation which will put some restrictions on foreign investment in the food industry, including on the length of the investment, and the joint ownership with local firms.

  • Saudi Arabia eyes special relationship with RI: Envoy
    • Jakarta Post
    • 30 September 2009

    “Our people have already surveyed several areas to choose the right place for planting basmati rice. The investment will be huge,” says Ambassador Khayyat.

  • Korea shifting to agricultural aid in resource diplomacy
    • Joong Ang Daily
    • 25 September 2009

    The Korea Rural Community Corporation, under the Agriculture Ministry, said it is also in talks with other resource-rich countries about deals in exchange for support for the construction of agricultural infrastructure or farms. Among the negotiating partners mentioned were Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Senegal and Mongolia.

  • Agricultural investment firm opened
    • Arab News
    • 09 September 2009

    Saudi Arabia announces the launch of Agroinvest, which will focus on farm acquisitions abroad to grow wheat, rice, soybeans and other crops in Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan and Turkey

  • Asian interest in Aussie farmland: rural rebound
    • The Australian
    • 03 September 2009

    Ray White Rural chairman Paul White said there was interest in Australian rural property from Chinese, Malaysian and Indonesian investment groups, looking to secure their food supply for the future.

  • Land for farming on sale
    • The Star
    • 30 June 2009

    Will Malaysia be emulating other nations by looking abroad to plant staple crops like rice, or rear cows, goats, chicken and fish to secure a sustainable food supply?

  • KS Oils acquires additional 14,000 ha of land
    • KSNR
    • 24 June 2009

    KS Oils acquires additional 14,000 HA land for oil palm plantations in Indonesia, owning a total of 34,000 ha.

  • Don’t be so quick to sell off the farmland
    • Jakarta Globe
    • 18 June 2009

    If Indonesia decides to go ahead with leasing farmland, it should do so with caution, keeping an eye on both the risks and the opportunities. We need to understand that we have a very strong bargaining position.

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