The NCH agribusiness story
- 16 May 2018
The collapse of the Soviet Union opened up incredible opportunities for investment in farmland in the Ukraine and Russia, says NCH Capital in this promotional video.
The collapse of the Soviet Union opened up incredible opportunities for investment in farmland in the Ukraine and Russia, says NCH Capital in this promotional video.
The company plans to spend $300 million over the next five years, mostly on increasing processing and production, as well as expanding into farming in Africa, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, Dhawan said.
Thanks to the railway and other projects, former Soviet bloc countries like Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan smell opportunity for boosting agricultural exports to China. So does Russia.
Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov is seeking the right to buy three farms to extend his game ranch to 46,000 ha, and at the same time is offering to donate N$24 million to the land reform ministry.
The company has plans to build three livestock complexes with a total head of 15,000 cattle and a milk processing plant with a capacity of up to 60,000 metric tons of dairy products per year.
Saudi Agriculture and Livestock Investment Company has joined the UAE's Al Dahra in a US$1.3bn joint venture to make agribusiness acquisitions in 10 countries in the Black Sea region, including the acquisition of farmland.
Russia's five largest landowners together control an area the size of Belgium - which has been bad news for many small farmers
Company belonging to the immediate relatives of Russia's Minister of Agriculture acquired 184,000 ha of land in 2016, increasing its Russian land holdings to 640,000 ha..
Report gives an overview of the availability of information for land concessions in Brazil, Canada, Cambodia, Colombia, Indonesia, Liberia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Republic of the Congo, and Russia.
Russia's sovereign wealth fund and the Israeli investment company LR Group have agreed to co-invest $100 million into dairy farming and milk processing in Russia.
Russia's farmland market remains attractive to investors, both foreign and domestic, despite the apparent snub presented by Black Earth Farming's decision to quit, with prices soaring by up to 60% last year.
Black Earth Farming revealed it had agreed, in essence, a $200m takeover by a Russia's Kukura family in the most high profile of a series of retreats by foreign investors from the Black Sea agricultural market.