South Korean-owned Welt Bio Co. Ltd. is investing $40 million in a black pepper plantation in Mondulkiri, Cambodia, which is being described as the largest in the world.
A South Korean food security office will open in Abu Dhabi next month to help the UAE in its agricultural and fishery sectors, says the country’s ambassador to the UAE.
Korean rice company, Grace Road Company Ltd, in Navua is looking at investing $10 million in the revitalisation of the rice industry in the country and in expanding its farm.
Desde a última grande crise alimentar, governos e empresas de nações ricas têm comprado ou arrendado terras férteis de países em desenvolvimento, em especial na África. Benefícios desses negócios para as populações locais? Poucos ou nenhum.
Cambodia's Land Management Minister intervened in a high-profile land dispute between villagers and a South Korean agribusiness firmn, announcing that the lands would be taken back from the company and awarded to local residents.
Trade deal with South Korea cuts the value of Australian farmland purchases that attract scrutiny from the Foreign Investment Review Board from $53 million to $15m.
Le projet d’agrobusiness de Daewoo Logistics qui envisageait un bail emphytéotique de 99 ans sur 1,3 m d’hectares au Madagascar en 2008 revient dans les actualités.
Five years after it was proposed, Daewoo Logistics' agribusiness project, which envisioned a 99-year lease of 1.3 million ha in four regions of Madagascar, has now returned to the news.
Major asset managers, cowed by the cost, the risk and the controversy involved in investing in farmland, are joining forces to increase investment in the historically under-capitalised sector.
North Korea will dispatch dozens of laborers this spring to grow corn, beans and vegetables on 1,000 hectares of farmland in the Russian Far East, local government sources said
