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Findings from the Federal Government’s latest annual Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land Register released last week show the total area of ag land with a level of offshore ownership has fallen just 0.3 percent from 47.7 million hectares to 47.56m ha last year.

Tajikistan leased around 18,000 hectares of its land to China for cotton, rice, grain, and corn cultivation for a 49-year contract. The agreement was part of a broader initiative to strengthen economic ties between the two countries.

One Chinese company that has joined Laos' durian rush is Jiarun, an infrastructure builder that has vowed to establish the world's largest durian plantation in Attapeu, a remote province in southern Laos, on 5,000 ha it has secured on a 50-year lease from the Laotian government.

Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago of Niger state, Nigeria signed a $684 million contract agreement with China Overseas Engineering Group Company Limited and China Railway Engineering Corporation that includes 50,000 hectares of land for a Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zone.

In Tanzania, Chinese seed company Longping is setting its sights on expanding its soybean operations to the Ndogowe area of Dodoma, as well as developing a massive 10,000-hectare farm in Mkulazi, Morogoro.

China's Asia Tobacco Industry Group says it will will build a crop oil processing plant, a cattle farm, a plant to produce feed for cattle and various aquatic species, and a fertiliser processing plant, as well as supporting farmers to cultivate bananas and sugarcane.

Las tierras agrícolas de Chile son cada vez menos de chilenos y más de extranjeros. Aunque hubo una ola de compras chinas para cerezas, esta ha ido amainando. Ahora, vienen de Norteamérica, Europa y Arabia Saudita a adquirir predios para producir frutas, principalmente. Ya el 20% de las exportaciones frutícolas que salen de tierra chilena lo controlan fondos de inversión extranjeros.

Le tribunal judiciaire de Paris a ordonné la confiscation de neuf châteaux dans le vignoble bordelais acquis au début des années 2010 par un magnat chinois qui a été condamné pour blanchiment de détournement de fonds publics chinois et abus de biens sociaux

A French court ruled to confiscate nine Bordeaux wine country chateaux acquired by a Chinese magnate convicted of laundering Chinese government funds.

Chinese billionaire Xianfeng Lu has put one of the country’s biggest dairy operations, the nearly 200-year-old Woolnorth farming aggregation in Tasmania, up for sale after losing a big milk supply contract with dairy giant Fonterra earlier this year.

Farmers from different communities in the Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State took to the streets in protest against the alleged decision of the state government to take over their farmlands for leasing to a Chinese company.

An Australian management fund has nabbed another slice of historic Tasmanian farmland from billionaire Chinese businessman Xianfeng Lu and his troubled dairy company.