China

The board of Australia’s largest fruit and vegetable company, Costa Group, has agreed to a cut-price $1.5 billion takeover offer from a consortium headed by private equity firm Paine Schwartz Partners.

The pact with China's Guangxi Fenglin Wood Industry Group and a company the Zambian government said was called Development Company Ltd. of China, will include 100,000 hectares of plantations of slash pine.

Fears of China buying up farmland in the United States have been grabbing headlines despite the fact that China owns less than 1 percent of foreign-owned land.

China will launch the Plan for China Supporting Africa's Agricultural Modernization to help Africa expand grain plantation and encourage Chinese companies to increase agricultural investment in Africa.

A Chinese agricultural company has announced plans to invest “$12.7 billion” in the agriculture sector on 750,000 ha of land in four provinces in Cambodia along the Tonle Sap Lake: Battambang, Pursat, Siem Reap and Kampong Thom.

La Chine est en fait très loin de la première place occupée par les entreprises canadiennes, qui possèdent plus de 4,8 millions d'hectares de terres agricoles aux États-Unis, selon le ministère de l'Agriculture.

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.

The company Nong Ye Fazhan says it has invested more than US$16 million since 2021 to build a 600 hectare plantation and it will now expand to meet grwoing demand.

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

Cargill is selling its $48.8 million poultry farm and processing plant in Anhui province to DCP Capital, a Beijing-based private equity firm with Singapore's GIC and Temasek as investors, and the Canadian pension fund CDPQ

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.

Big producers eye growth and China market, but must drill for water – to depths small farmers cannot reach.