6 Provinsi bagi Australia
- Kompas
- 17 Mar 2010
Peluang Investasi di Pertanian dan Peternakan
Qatar-based Hassad Food has initiated its investment in Australian agriculture with the purchase of the prized Kaladbro Estate in far western Victoria.
Saudi Arabia, along with Abu Dhabi and Kuwait, want to buy more than $1 billion worth of Aussie farmland in a 21st century land grab.
Human rights workers said risks to the rural poor over such deals are significant because they are regularly evicted to make way for foreign investors.
Swedish Count Carl Gustav Wachmeister bought 3,310 ha in Victoria State, Australia
Peter Costello, the former treasurer of Australia, revealed Wednesday he was working with an investment fund that planned to inject US$600 million into Cambodia’s agricultural sector. The projects will cover a vast area, about 100,000 hectares.
Some of the world's biggest sugar players, including Brazil's Cosan, New York-listed Bunge and privately held US multinational Cargill, might join China in the race for CSR's sugar division
Glencore's agricultural interests include 300,000 hectares of land in Australia, Kazakhstan, Paraguay, Russia and Ukraine.
Hassad Food has launched a large project for producing livestock in Australia with a capacity of up to 70,000 Syrian head of sheep in its first year, and then up to 150,000 head of sheep in three years. The company will also purchase farmlands for the production of grains especially wheat.
Dubai World said on Friday the company was not involved in the dairy farm purchases "in any way".
US embassy in Kuwait reports on discussions with Kuwaiti officials on acquiring farmland overseas for food security or profit
Qatar has embarked on a food-security programme to make it more self-sufficient and help the communities around its farmland projects in developing countries.