Farm projects in fertile Arab nations can cut GCC gap
      Gulf oil producers need to set up agricultural projects in fertile Arab countries to achieve self-sufficiency and to bridge a massive farm deficit that exceeded $12 billion (Dh44bn) in 2006, a Gulf group said yesterday.
      • Emirates Business 24/7
      • 28 May 2008
      Somsak seeks stiffer laws to better protect rice farming
      Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Somsak Prissananantakul is set to toughen the enforcement of land ownership laws to keep rice farming areas out of foreign investors' reach.
      • Bangkok Post
      • 27 May 2008
      Rice farmers dig in over foreigners' land
      The Thai Farmers Association called on concerned agencies yesterday to look into land occupation by foreign businessmen, which has made many of the country's rice farmers landless.
      • Bangkok Post
      • 25 May 2008
      China to lease overseas farmland to solve food problem
      In March 2004, an agreement was signed between southwest China's Chongqing Municipal government and the Lao government to cooperatively build a comprehensive agricultural park in Laos for Chinese enterprises to produce grain. Leasing farmland overseas to produce grain has become a new way for China, a country with the world's greatest population but comparatively scarce soil resources, to solve its food supply problem.
      • Xinhua
      • 24 May 2008
      Thaksin's rice plan angers local farmers
      Farmers and activists have opposed a plan for a business consortium from Saudi Arabia to invest in rice farming in Thailand. The scheme is said to be the creation of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Farmers fear they could lose their livelihood and rice farming could be held hostage by foreign investors.
      • Bangkok Post
      • 23 May 2008
      Saudi ministers in Sudan to discuss investment potentials
      Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait are among the Arab countries who invest in agriculture in Suda. Also there are some private Saudi investors working in this field in the country.
      • Sudan Tribune
      • 23 May 2008
      Pakistan farm sector eyes major share of GCC's $200b food imports
      Pakistan’s agriculture sector has the potential to cater to the food requirements of the GCC region, which spends over $200 billion on farm imports.
      • Pakistan Investment Division & Board of Investment Media Release
      • 20 May 2008
      Richard Spinks of Landkom snaps up Ukraine plots to cash in on high crop prices
      A British entrepreneur is leasing land from smallholders in an attempt to revive the breadbasket of the former Soviet Union
      • Wall Street Journal
      • 18 May 2008
      Food crisis may divide Middle East's oil haves, have-nots
      “Buying farms is not a bad thing,” Panos Konandreas, acting director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization in Geneva, said in a telephone interview. “If you are like Saudi Arabia and have all the resources in the world, you can help farms optimize their strategies and there will be more production.”
      • Bloomberg
      • 17 May 2008
      Saudi Arabia looking to invest in rice
      Investors in Saudi Arabia, one of the world's top rice buyers, are looking for joint ventures with Thai partners to invest in rice farming in Thailand and Africa.
      • Bangkok Post
      • 16 May 2008
      Jordan to invest in Sudanese agriculture
      The Jordanian Prime Minister Nader Dahabi said his country will cultivate lands allocated for his country in Sudan as part of his government strategy to deal with rising prces of food items on the international market.
      • Sudan Tribune
      • 15 May 2008
      Pakistani farm talks are murky
      Talks aimed at acquiring large agricultural plots of land in Pakistan were not expected to yield results any time soon, a senior Pakistani government official has said.
      • The National
      • 13 May 2008

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