La Saudi Agriculture and Livestock Co, une branche du fonds public d’investissement saoudien a indiqué son intention d’acheter des terres arables au Soudan pour la culture de fourrage.
Saudi Agriculture and Livestock Co (SALIC), an arm of the state-owned Public Investment Fund, is looking to buy land in Sudan to grow fodder, after purchasing a 20% stake in a Brazilian beef exporter.
Businessman claims 50% of Saudi investors in Ethiopia have left the country, some leaving behind their farms and others selling them. He says many do not want to return for fear of being framed for crimes they did not commit.
Sudan’s National Investment Authority says it offered a Saudi delegation six agricultural projects in various states in north and east Sudan to carry out a food security plan.
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Russian Direct Investment Fund together are going to invest $10 billion into Russian projects, including agriculture.
Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi plans to invest an additional $5 billion in Ethiopia's agriculture and agro-processing sectors over the 2016-2021 period.
Sudan is hosting the agriculture ministers from Egypt and Saudi Arabia for discussions on a proposal made by president Omer Hassan al-Bashir to use his country’s vast fertile lands to achieve Arab food security.
Almarai said to be among Saudi companies that plan to expand their business in Egypt, along with food oil firm Saffola and Jannat Agriculture Investment Company.
In January 2015, the Dutch embassy in Riyadh hosted a meeting with GCC investors and officials to discuss how to work together on land-based ag investments in Africa in order to achieve GCC food security.
The loan will be used to develop 3,500 hectares of land in the eastern basin of the Rkiz plain (300 km south of Nouakchott), develop another 2,200 hectares and rehabilitate 1,000 hectares in the western basin of the same plain.
Saudi Arabia's strategy is to encourage the Saudi private sector to invest abroad using their financial surpluses, their ‘ag’ experience and the modern production and irrigation technology they have.
Sin actividad fiscal en la Argentina, este profesional del estudio Integritas Trust figura en los registros societarios de una multinacional saudí que se reunió con Cristina Kirchner y luego adquirió 12 mil hectáreas, 24 horas antes de que el Congreso de la Nación sancionara la Ley de Tierras.
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