UAE

Investment Fund Al Dahra Holding took over Agricola Braila, the largest agricultural producer in Romania, in a deal estimated at over EUR 230 million euros and involving some 57,000 ha.

“I’ve got strong interest from Canada, the United Kingdom and Dubai and they want to come out now and have a look around," says the owner of the largest semi-contiguous cropping aggregation to be offered in Australia’s history.

Once one of Florida's iconic ranching dynasties has sold the balance of its Osceola County land holdings to a global agribusiness firm Optimum Agriculture and the government of Dubai for $136.5 million.

Abu Dhabi-based Al Dahra Group is close to a 200 million Euro deal (US$245 million) to acquire Agricost Braila, the largest farm in Europe.

President Museveni has promised to allot 7,000 hectares of land in Mbarara District to one of the UAE’s largest dairy companies, Al Rawabi, to set up model farm in the country. The investor and CEO, Dr Ahmad Eltigani Al Mansouri, will bring in new technology to fertilise cows that produce high milk, according to a press release from State House.

Abu Dhabi-based Jenaan Investment has a new joint venture with the government of Sudan to farm 10,000 ha there to produce fodder for livestock in the UAE.

Undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy says that investments in the fields of agriculture and food industries are among the prominent sectors that attract UAE investments abroad as the country currently imports about 80 per cent of its food needs.

A group of companies controlled by one of Dubai’s richest families has signed a deal for a $1 billion dollar investment in a 77,000 sugar beet and grains farms in Minya, Egypt.

Mozambique's Minister of Agriculture and Food Security of Mozambique tells the Charge d'Affaires at the UAE Embassy that his ministry will co-ordinate with other relevant authorities to provide UAE investors with land to for agricultural projects

Le projet porte sur une superficie totale de 76 000 hectares et comprend la mise en place d’une plantation et d’une usine dotée d’une capacité annuelle de production de 1 million de tonnes de sucre et d'un coût de 450 millions $.

"2017 has been an exciting year for Pegasus Food Futures, as we acquired farms in Abu Dhabi, Ras-Al-Khaimah and two sites in Portugal," says UAE-based company which already owns farms in Oman, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Bahrain.

A Mozambican delegation is in the UAE to conclude procedures prior to signing a formal agreement on cooperation in agriculture, while Dubai Ports World is in negotiations with the Mozambican government over the future of the port of Nacala.