China

Cambodian government yesterday gave green light to a Chinese-owned firm, Longmate Agriculture Co Ltd, to invest in a banana plantation in Kampot province. Three plantatios cover 5,000 hectares of land that can produce up to 14,000 tonnes of bananas according to Cambodia General Director of Agriculture.

Longmate Agricuture Co., Ltd. une coentreprise d’investisseurs cambodgiens et chinois, a annoncé avoir investi 32 millions de dollars pour la culture de bananes sur 1000 hectares de terres dans le district de Chhouk à Kampot.

“In the long term, South America, and the Black Sea area still have great potential in their arable land, and can play a bigger role in the global soybean supply system,” says the president of state grains trader COFCO.

Judicial police say they have found evidence of money laundering and the use of irregular documents in the acquisition of vineyards.

The UK remains the largest foreign owner of Australian farmland, followed by China and the US, according to the Foreign Investment Review Board 2016–17 Annual Report.

En France, les enquêteurs de l’Office central pour la répression de la grande délinquance financière ont procédé à la saisie de 10 châteaux et domaines viticoles du Bordelais pour un montant d’environ 28 millions d’euros.

In Waingmaw alone, there are more than 11,000 ha of tissue-culture bananas being grown by Chinese and local companies, and there are more than 24,300 ha in the whole state.

“No leasing land to China even for one day,” read a banner hoisted during the recent protests.

Located in Yunnan in the southwest of the country, the farming project will operate under the business name, Yunnan Avocado Agriculture Development Limited, and with an eventual goal of building out a fully integrated supply chain.

A Chinese company recently bought nearly 1,000 hectares of French farmland. Pourquoi? "To put French cereals on Chinese tables," its owner says.

The promises that helped a Chinese firm secure government approval for the controversial purchase of Australia’s largest dairy farm were not “legally binding”, according to Treasury officials.

The project leaders of Wanbao Africa Agriculture Development Limited seemed to have an emerging-market hubris every bit as blinding as that of their colonial predecessors.