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PAVA views land assets as unique investment opportunity
- PR-inside
- 06 May 2009
PAVA together with its agricultural subsidiary explores the investment potential of Russian lands amid the world booming demand on agricultural resources
Food importers may increase overseas farm purchases
- Bloomberg
- 23 April 2009
Food-importing nations from South Korea to Saudi Arabia may step up purchases or leases of overseas farmland to lock in supplies amid concern prices may again surge. “We’re going to see more of this, especially from countries that are quite dependent on imports,” Brady Sidwell, head of advisory at Rabobank Groep NV’s Northeast Asia Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory Group, said in a Bloomberg Television interview broadcast today.
Russie: la vente des terrains aux étrangers restera-t-elle lettre morte?
- RIA Novosti
- 22 April 2009
Les Finlandais ont demandé à Dmitri Medvedev, par le biais de leur présidente Tarja Halonen, de leur permettre d'acheter des terrains dans les zones frontalières russes.
Après une offensive discrète au Kazakhstan, la Chine lorgne les terres russes inexploitées
- Le Monde
- 19 April 2009
Officiellement, les terres arables louées à la Chine n’existent pas. C’est que les autorités kazakhes craignent la réaction de la population rurale devant la “concurrence déloyale” représentée par l’arrivée en masse de paysans chinois, dont l’équipement agricole est supérieur au vieux matériel soviétique encore utilisé sur la plupart des exploitations kazakhes.
HyundaiHeavy’s land deal smells of politics
- Korea Times
- 16 April 2009
Hyundai Heavy Industries -- the world's biggest shipyard -- has bought a big tract of Russian farmland in one of the latest diversification moves by Korean firms. But here's a question: Have performance- and profit-obsessed Hyundai Vice Chairman Min Gye-sik and its CEO Choi Kil-seon voluntarily decided on the move or has the company's biggest stakeholder pushed for the plan?
Hyundai Heavy secures farms in Russia
- Bloomberg
- 15 April 2009
Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world’s largest shipbuilder, bought 67.6 percent of a Russian farm to grow corn and soybeans, heeding a call by the Korean government to help ensure food security. The shipbuilder purchased the stake from a group of New Zealand investors for $6.5 million and plans to produce 60,000 metric tons of corn and soybeans in 2014.
Hyundai plants Seoul's flag on 50,000ha of Russia
- FT
- 15 April 2009
South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries yesterday announced it planned to lease 50,000 hectares of farmland in Russia's far east, in the latest sign of Seoul's push to increase its food security by outsourcing agricultural production overseas, writes Javier Blas
Saudis and South Koreans in new land rush
- Land Gazette
- 14 April 2009
Two of the world's biggest land investors - Saudi Arabia and South Korea - have announced moves to improve their food security. A South Korean company is to buy 125,000 acres in Russia over the next four years and a Saudi group has set up a £600m fund to buy land.
Terres agricoles: le grand monopoly
- Libération
- 14 April 2009
Le premier constructeur naval sud-coréen, Hyundai Heavy Industries, vient d'annoncer sa participation à l'effort national pour sécuriser les ressources alimentaires du pays. HHI vient d'acquérir 67,6% des parts de Khorol Zerno, propriétaire et exploitant de 10000 hectares de terres agricoles dans le grand est russe, dans la région de Khorolski.
SKorea shipbuilder buys big tract of Russian land
- AFP
- 14 April 2009
South Korea's largest shipbuilder, Hyundai Heavy Industries, announced it will buy a big tract of Russian farmland in the latest move by Korean firms to help their crowded country secure stable food supplies.
Korea to Encourage Companies to Farm Abroad to Ensure Supplies
- Bloomberg
- 02 April 2009
South Korea, Asia’s second-biggest grain importer, will lend money and give technology to companies to develop farms overseas to ensure the nation’s food security after prices surged last year.
Betting on the Russian farm
- Institutional Investor
- 08 January 2009
"We are seeing a land grab bigger than anywhere else in the world, and it has attracted a mighty cast of characters," says Kingsmill Bond, chief strategist at Troika Dialog, a Moscow brokerage firm.