Australia

Blackstone Group LP and China agribusiness company New Hope Group are through to the final round of bidding for Australia's largest poultry producer Inghams Enterprises, a deal that could be worth as much as A$1.4 billion

Les autorités d’Australie de l’Ouest vont signer le 20 novembre un bail de 50 ans avec une société immobilière de Shanghai, chargée de développer 15.200 hectares de terres agricoles.

For all the willing buyers seeking tracts of Australian farm land, local investors are not among them. They wonder what all the fuss is about.

Shanghai Zhongfu s'est vue attribuer un contrat qui va lui permettre, dans le cadre d'un bail de 50 ans, d'exploiter 15 200 hectares de riches terres agricoles, irriguées par la rivière Ord.

Chinese property development conglomerate Shanghai Zhongfu has won the sole right to develop 15,200ha of high-value irrigated agricultural land in northern Australia..

Duxton Asset Management has bought more than 800 hectares of Australian fruit orchards for a discount of more than 50 per cent from receivers of failed managed investment scheme Rewards Group and listed land owner Ark Fund.

An Australian farmer has voiced concerns about a Chinese company's $29 million purchase of 23,000 ha of prime, grain-growing land in Western Australia's south.

A consultation paper on Australia's foreign ownership register for agricultural land is now available for public comment.

A Chinese conglomerate and Australia’s largest beef producer are amongst contenders vying for rights to farm an agricultural area equal in size to 21,000 soccer pitches in Western Australia.

Australia risks losing an opportunity to become a farmyard for Asia, as growing unease over foreigners buying rural land threatens to provoke protectionist policies.

Australia will set up a foreign-ownership register for farm lands, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Tuesday, as the government moves to ease public concern over foreign buyers in the agriculture sector.

A Austrália decidiu criar um registro nacional para os estrangeiros proprietários de terras agrícolas, anunciou a primeira-ministra Julia Gillard, no momento em que parte do setor rural manifesta preocupação com a venda de propriedades, em particular aos chineses.