Thailand

Thai sugar grower gets 10,000 hectare land concession
- Vietiane Times
- 11 June 2009
The Government of Laos has granted a major Thai investor a 10,000 ha concession in two central provinces of Laos to grow sugarcane.
Gulf states show interest in Thai farms
- Reuters
- 08 June 2009
A number of Gulf states have expressed interest in livestock and rice farming in Thailand to secure food supplies, a Thai official said on Monday. "The countries involved could be Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar or the UAE," he added.
Thai, UAE talks to set up livestock farms
- Emirates Business 24/7
- 04 June 2009
The UAE Government is holding talks with Thailand about plans to develop huge livestock farms in the Southeast Asian country.
Saudi Arabia looks to foreign farmlands to feed itself
- Dawn
- 26 April 2009
The issue of food security is getting higher on Riyadh’s priority list.
Life is slowly draining from the farms
- Bangkok Post
- 22 April 2009
In 2006, Thailand had about 25 million farmers, who accounted for 40% of the population. The number is likely fall to 37% of the population by 2013. The government must act to reverse the trend, otherwise investors could rent or buy land from farmers to invest in large-scale farming, agricultural processing plants and hiring local people.
Africa beckons for rice firms
- Bangkok Post
- 16 April 2009
The region continues to have great market potential as a number of Thai rice companies have offices there and some have been approached by local governments to invest there in milling, processing and even growing rice.
Thais eye Nigerian rice plantations
- The Nation
- 01 April 2009
Capital Rice and Asia Golden Rice, both in Thailand, recently formed a business alliance with the Stallion Group, Nigeria's largest conglomerate, to supply rice to this major African market. The next step is to export rice-planting know-how and invest in Nigerian farmland.
No matter how bad things get, people still need to eat
- The Economist
- 18 Mar 2009
A conference for fund managers tied to agriculture held annually in Sydney by Austock, an Australian broker, attracted a few dozen contrarian souls three years ago. This year’s event, which began on March 16th, had to be restricted to several hundred ticket-holders, with many others turned away.
Wikileaks: Contract farming in Burma
- Wikileaks
- 12 January 2009
"Since 2005, the Burmese Government has encouraged investors from China, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Kuwait to invest in contract farms," reports the US mission in Rangoon
Rich countries carry out '21st century land grab'
- New Scientist
- 04 December 2008
Nomadic herders, rarely a priority for governments, are being dispossessed by bioethanol developments in Kenya, says Michael Taylor of the International Land Coalition (ILC), and they also depend on the “unused” land that Madagascar offered Daewoo.
Welcome fades for wealthy nations
- Financial Times
- 20 November 2008
The initial welcome given to rich countries’ investment in African farmland by agricultural and development officials has faded as the first ventures prove to be heavily weighted in favour of the investors. The FAO warned of such a trend when it said this year that the race to secure farmland overseas risked creating a “neo-colonial” system.
Bangladesh-Myanmar contract farming: Opportunity for Bangladesh to meet agricultural shortfall
- Asian Tribune
- 29 October 2008
Myanmar proposed to Bangladesh to take lease of at least 50,000 acres of land in its Rakhine state for contract farming of paddy, onion, maize, soybean, tea, and sugarcane