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Al Salam to set up $100m agri investment firm
- Trade Arabia
- 15 November 2009
Al Salam Bank has announced plans to launch a new $100 million agricultural investment company in Bahrain which will focus on east Asia and Turkey.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey to map out cooperation
- Arab News
- 27 October 2009
Saudi Arabia and Turkey will hold talks to map out a future strategy for cooperation in the agriculture sector on Tuesday. The talks, to be held within the framework of a major initiative launched by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah to ensure food security, will be led by Minister of Agriculture Fahd Balghunaim, while Turkish Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Mehdi Eker will attend from the Turkish side.
Kingdom, Turkey to map out cooperation
- Arab News
- 27 October 2009
Saudi Arabia and Turkey will hold talks to map out a future strategy for cooperation in the agriculture sector on Tuesday.
Saudi private $533 mln agri-business firm eyes 2010 start
- Reuters
- 09 September 2009
A group of private Saudi investors said they plan to start a company with $533.3 million capital that will invest in farm projects mainly abroad. First projects may be with Ghana, Turkey and Kazakhstan.
Agricultural investment firm opened
- Arab News
- 09 September 2009
Saudi Arabia announces the launch of Agroinvest, which will focus on farm acquisitions abroad to grow wheat, rice, soybeans and other crops in Brazil, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan and Turkey
Foreign investors snap up African farmland
- Der Spiegel
- 30 July 2009
Because of the political sensitivity of the modern-day land grab, it is often only the country's head of state who knows the details. Der Spiegel investigates.
Saudi firm to invest $3 bln in Turkey farms
- Reuters
- 10 July 2009
Private Saudi firm Planet Food World (PFWC) will invest around $3 billion in agriculture in Turkey over the next five years to export food products to the Gulf region, the head of its Turkish unit said.
New asset classes for Islamic investments
- MENAFN
- 29 June 2009
The water industry and agriculture are emerging as major new asset classes for Islamic financial institutions, especially in the field of sustainable investments.
"Choose and take what you want"
- TurkeyPress Scan
- 13 June 2009
Turkish Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker says to Arab investors, "We have made maps of all our lands. Take and cultivate which you want."
Topraktan 20 milyar dolar çıkacak
- CBNC-e
- 10 June 2009
Suudi tarım şirketi Planet Food World, Türkiye'de 20 milyar dolar yatırımla 5 yılda 20 bin modüler organik çiftlik kuracak.
Turks veto farm plan for minefield
- FT
- 02 June 2009
Hostility to foreign investment in a sensitive border area has forced the Turkish government to shelve plans to turn a minefield along its frontier with Syria into organic farmland.
Riyadh paves way for foreign ventures
- FT
- 24 May 2009
Since details emerged of Saudi Arabia’s plans to ensure supplies of wheat, rice, corn, soya beans and alfalfa through overseas agricultural investments, officials have insisted that they intended the programme to be private-sector led.