China

US Senator introduces bill to prohibit Chinese investment in agribusiness
- Krishi Jagran
- 22 August 2022
Senator Rounds noted on his website that this new legislation will also bar investment in US agribusiness from Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
Noumi dairy farm shares now worth $30m as New Hope confirms bid
- North Queensland Registry
- 25 July 2022
Chinese agribusiness giant, New Hope Group, has moved to buy itself a comfortable majority share of the big Australian Fresh Milk Holdings dairy farming business.
Chinese investors to cultivate 10,000 hectares of rice in Yobe – Buni
- Daily Trust
- 24 July 2022
Gov. Mai Mala Buni of Nigeria's Yobe State has said a group of Chinese investors will establish 10,000 hectares of rice plantation under a trial agricultural project in the state.
Chinese Ambassador visits largest rice factory in Nigeria located in Bauchi
- Naija 24/7
- 23 July 2022
“This is uncommon. The Governor allocated the land to us without asking for any bribe or commission,” the CEO of Tiamin told China's Ambassador about the 10,000 ha allocated to his company by Bauchi state government.
Nigeria : un groupe d’investisseurs chinois veut établir une rizière de 10 000 hectares dans l’Etat de Yobe
- Agence Ecofin
- 22 July 2022
L’exploitation sera consacrée à la culture d’une nouvelle variété de riz chinois, qui permettra de quintupler le rendement comparativement aux semences conventionnelles, selon Yung Wang, le chef de file du groupe
Why does China own so much of Ukraine?
- WSJ
- 29 June 2022
Other countries should be careful about allowing sales of farmland to hostile powers.
The impact of unimplemented large-scale land development deals
- Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
- 27 June 2022
Article analyses the effects on local actors, their land access, land use and tenure security of a large-scale land deal in northern Laos that a Chinese company initiated but subsequently abandoned.
China firm invests $70M in mango project
- Phnom Penh Post
- 15 May 2022
Green Sea Agriculture Co Ltd's plantation currently covers a total area of 1,200 ha, and it plans to invest an additional $500 million to expand mango cultivation and export the fruit to the Chinese market on a large scale
Cómo el régimen chino devastó sus tierras y ahora las acapara alrededor del mundo
- BLes
- 09 May 2022
Resulta contradictoria la política de tierras del PCCh, dado que con las grandes falencias en el manejo de las tierras agrícolas del país a su cargo se haya volcado a comprar tierras en el extranjero.
Despite fears of foreign control, Aussies own the lion's share of agriculture
- QCL
- 28 Mar 2022
When total foreign freehold and leasehold interests are combined China has the largest holding of 2.3pc, shadowed by the United Kingdom (2.2pc), the USA (0.8pc), Netherlands 0.7pc, and Canada with 0.6pc.
China wants bananas. But why are Cambodia's banana workers getting sick?
- South China Morning Post
- 27 Mar 2022
Cambodian banana exports to China have surged in recent years, but reports abound of exploitation and endangerment across Cambodia’s banana farms.
Pakistan’s Fatima Group seals $1bn industrial deals with Saudi, Chinese companies
- Arab News
- 28 February 2022
The collaboration with Sarh Attaqnia Co and CMEC aims to unlock untapped land resources of Pakistan by bringing fallow lands under cultivation through the Corporate Agriculture Farming initiative.