Since 1999, The Ingleby Company has bought about 17 farms. The company runs just under 20,000ha of land with 130,000 stock units, most of which are sheep and cattle.
- Country Wide
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04 January 2008
The Solvent Extraction Association, currently visiting South America, will come up with a techno-feasibility report on carrying out contract farming by Indian companies either in Argentina, Paraguay or Uruguay.
- The Hindu Business Line
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02 December 2007
“There’s no harm in allowing [Chinese] farmers to leave the country to become farm owners [in Africa],” the head of China’s Export-Import Bank, Li Ruogu, says.
Libya plans to invest in the production of wheat in Ukraine on a surface of 100.000 hectares, in order to provide for the totality of its requirements
- Alarab Online
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21 November 2007
Brazilian grain broker Multigrain SA has bought 100,000 hectares of farmland and related operations in Brazil to secure a stable supply of soybeans and other farm produce, Japan's Mitsui & Co Ltd, a part owner of holding company Multigrain AG, said on Tuesday.
Agricultural land trusts and corporate players may take a bigger chunk of Australia's arable land with global market dynamics making rural land purchases more attractive investments.
A military-driven Chinese hybrid rice-for-opium crop-substitution program in the northern part of Myanmar's Shan state has resulted in four consecutive years of poor harvests and driven many ethnic-minority farmers into heavy debt or out of rice farming altogether.
- Asia Times
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23 August 2007
In 2006, Beijing and Maputo signed a memorandum of understanding concerning the creation of a massive agricultural project in the Zambezi river valley area.
- ISN Security Watch
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13 August 2007
Al Qudra a fondé la société Ikhlas spécialisée dans la production et la distribution de l’huile d’olive et il vient de prendre une option dans la création d’une société mixte dans le secteur des pêches maritimes
- Gazette du Maroc
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25 June 2007
Contrat d'octroi de 20,000 ha entre le Mali et une société Chinoise pour la production de canne à sucre.
- Mouvement des sans voix
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30 April 2007
Décret n°07-141/P-RM portant autorisation d’attribution sous forme de bail emphytéotique à l’Union Economique et Monétaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA) de deux parcelles de terrain dans la zone de l’Office du niger
China’s global scramble for natural resources is leading to a transformation of agricultural trading around the world.
- New York Times
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06 April 2007