Karuturi Global Ltd

Karuturi arm in PE deal talks to raise $100m
- VC Circle
- 09 February 2010
Standard Chartered Bank's Africa private equity arm and a unit of Reliance Capital are in talks to invest in Dubai-based Karuturi Overseas.
Ethiopia – country of the silver sickle – offers land dirt cheap to farming giants
- The Guardian
- 15 January 2010
Karuturi believes the potential for large profits is so great that it plans to invest nearly $1bn in its Ethiopian agricultural operations
Africa: Land grab or development? (NHK)
- NHK
- 08 January 2010
Documentary for Japan Broadcasting Corporation, focusing on Tanzania and Ethiopia
NHK World on land grabbing in Africa
- NHK
- 08 January 2010
Programme aired on NHK World presenting a documentary by Kohei Tsuji filmed in Ethiopia and Tanzania - in Japanese only - 35 minutes
Ethiopian farms lure investor funds as workers live in poverty
- Bloomberg
- 31 December 2009
Until last year, people in the Ethiopian settlement of Elliah earned a living by farming their land and fishing. Now, they are employees.
Wikileaks: Ethiopia seeks dramatic change in agricultural land use
- Wikileaks
- 10 December 2009
"This apparent rush to lease so much farmland, much or all of it to foreign interests, during a time of worsening food insecurity should raise concern within the donor community about GoE motivations and negotiating capacity," writes the US embassy in Addis Ababa in December 2009
Al-Amoudi solicits additional arable land
- Addis Fortune
- 07 December 2009
Al-Amoudi's recently established Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc requested, two weeks ago, an additional 250,000 ha of land in Ethiopia for sugar beet production.
Karuturi fructifies further to conquer overseas
- Economic Times
- 29 November 2009
Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, managing director of Karuturi Global Ltd was conferred with the award for business excellence in agribusiness in Africa by Corporate Council on Africa, for the year 2009.
The ultimate crop rotation
- Washington Post
- 23 November 2009
Lured by a new business model, wealthy nations flock to farmland in Ethiopia, locking in food supplies grown half a world away
SPECIAL REPORT-Is Africa selling out its farmers?
- Reuters
- 12 November 2009
Many small Ethopian farmers do not share their leaders' enthusiasm for leasing off farmland to foreign investors
Ethiopia leases land for agriculture to earn foreign exchange
- Bloomberg
- 10 November 2009
The Ethiopian government says concerns about foreign investors exporting food are outweighed by the plantations’ capacity to bring the country foreign exchange and technology, as well as creating employment.
Buying farm land and mines as local sectors languish
- Organiser
- 13 October 2009
The UPA Government has deprived job opportunities to millions of illiterate and semi-literate Indians by forcing Indian companies to invest abroad in overseas plantations and coal mining sectors.