Agri-investors stoke monoculture

Deutsche Welle | 21 April 2015

Agri-investors stoke monoculture

With interest rates at historic lows, more and more savvy investors are buying up farmland. Land prices have doubled within five years. The result is mega-farms like KTG Agra, which owns 50 thousand hectares of land in eastern Germany, Lithuania and Romania. It mainly grows vast fields of corn.