SLC Agricola

SLC Agricola, one of Brazil's largest soybean producers with cotton, corn and coffee operations, will have a 50.1 percent participation in the venture that will start operations in the northern frontier agricultural state of Bahia.

Brazil is helping develop Mozambican agriculture by promoting large-scale farming and supporting smallholders. Can it do both at once?

Valiance, a London-based asset manager, launched a fund in May 2012 that aims to invest in Brazilian farmland through a joint venture with Bovespa-listed farming company SLC Agrícola

Investment and pension funds are buying up Brazilian farmland and steadily pushing up the prices of Brazil's productive tropical farmland.

A SLC Agrícola informou na manhã desta quinta-feira que foi firmado contrato de subscrição de ações e outros acordos com o fundo de investimento Valiance Asset Management Limited.

SLC Agricola, the Brazil farm operator with large ambitions in farmland acquisition, sealed a $239m cash injection from UK fund manager Valiance Asset Management for a business aimed at turning scrub into "high-quality" farms.

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Após terem sido analisados vários países, casos da Colômbia, Paraguai e Uruguai, Rússia, Ucrânia e também outros países africanos, a administração da SLC Agrícola decidiu-se por Moçambique por haver maior estabilidade política e incentivos por parte do governo.

After analysing Colombia, Paraguay and Uruguay, Russia, the Ukraine and some other African countries, the board of SLC Agrícola settled on Mozambique because of its greater political stability and incentives offered by the government.

SLC Agricola took its Brazilian landbank above 300,000 hectares, an area bigger than Luxembourg, with its fourth purchase in four months, in a deal which highlighted the price gap between different parts of the country

Fertile soil and good water supply – but lagging development – present a compelling opportunity for agriculture investors, finds Stephanie Schwartz-Driver

The Brazilian government's decision to block major foreign land purchases from August 2010 has had a very real impact: prices for lots larger than 3,000 hectares have fallen by 10% or more over the past year, depending on the region.