Pakistan

Arab News speaks exclusively to CEO of FonGrow, spearheading agriculture projects under new investment body, who says Pakistan is in talks with Saudi companies like Al-Dahara, Saleh and Al-Khorayef for investment in corporate farming.

With Pakistan’s parliament's approval of the Special Investment Facilitation Council on August 1, all is now set for offering investors to procure huge lands for agriculture farming.

President Kissan Ittehad Khalid Mehmood Khokhar dismissed misconceptions created by some elements claiming that corporate farming would deprive the small farmers of their cultivable lands.

Pakistan has in principle approved 28 projects worth billions of dollars that would be offered to Gulf countries, including an 85,000 acre corporate farming project in the Cholistan desert.

The Lahore High Court struck down a decision by the interim government of Punjab to hand over 45,000 acres of land in three districts to the army on a 20-year lease, saying that the agreement was beyond the mandate of both — the caretakers and the military.

Pakistan Chambers of Commerce calls upon the government to unveil rules and regulations for agriculture real estate investment trusts to enable large stretches of land to be sold to individuals or legal entities.

The 5,000 acre farm in Muzaffargarh, Punjab is a joint venture between the Samsons Group of Pakistan and the Haier Group of China.

A High Court in Pakistan resumed hearing a petition against the grant of large swathes of public land in Punjab to the military for “corporate agricultural farming”, under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.

Des "tables par pays" ont été créés afin de développer la production agricole dans 12 pays "frères"

Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee (PKRC) strongly condemns the agricultural land grab by military. PKRC is member organization of LA Via Campesina.

Pakistan General Headquarters of Lands Directorate has asked the Board of Revenue, Punjab to handover state lands of 45,267 acres to the Pakistan Army for corporate agriculture farming.

Royal Group of China has established a laboratory in Pakistan to develop buffalo embryos of elite animals and plans to set up a buffalo dairy farm of 8,000 heads.