The proposed acquisition of O Telhar by Amaggi encompasses all assets in Brazil, including about 70,000 hectares of farming land, cotton mills, warehouses and machinery
O negócio prevê a compra pela Amaggi de todos os ativos da El Tejar no Brasil, incluindo cerca de 70.000 hectares de terras agrícolas e usinas de algodão
As várias empresas que compõe o grupo El Tejar são abastecidas por fundos internacionais e tem sócios jurídicos com sede em paraísos fiscais na Europa e no Caribe.
Fundada em 1987 por um grupo de famílias de agricultores da região de Saladillo, na Argentina, incluindo os Alvarado, Pallette, Pueyrredón e Kasdorf, a empresa El Tejar (O Telhar no Brasil) em pouco tempo se tornou o primeiro grande pool de produtores com terras arrendadas naquele país.
The largest agricultural landholder in Uruguay has acquired the totality of the Uruguayan assets of international agriculture group El Tejar, the second largest agribusiness in the country.
Los Grobo does not own a single shovel or acre. Instead it leases machinery and land from others. This outsourcing model is now used for nearly 60% of farmland in Argentina.
Uruguay's president said on Wednesday he wanted to raise taxes on the country's biggest landowners -- including Argentine-based agricultural company El Tejar and George Soros's Adecoagro -- to boost the state's share of bumper farming and forestry sector profits
On the rare occasion that New Yorkers talk about farming, it's usually something along the lines of what sort of organic kale to plant in the vanity garden at the second house in the Adirondacks.
El Tejar will plant more than 1 million acres in Mato Grosso this upcoming season and nearly 2.75 million acres across South America, making it the largest farm company in the world.
