Hadco Archive

01 July 2009
Almarai to take over poultry firm Hadco

In addition to being a key player in the Saudi poultry business, Hadco produces olives, wheat, dates and grass fodder. Almarai has its own cattle farms.
024 May 2009
Riyadh paves way for foreign ventures

Since details emerged of Saudi Arabia’s plans to ensure supplies of wheat, rice, corn, soya beans and alfalfa through overseas agricultural investments, officials have insisted that they intended the programme to be private-sector led.
026 April 2009
Saudi Arabia looks to foreign farmlands to feed itself

The issue of food security is getting higher on Riyadh’s priority list.
017 April 2009
L’Arabie saoudite vise une autosuffisance alimentaire délocalisée

En janvier, le premier riz “saoudien” produit à l’étranger a été présenté au roi Abdallah. Le consommateur saoudien ne goûte pas la différence. En dépit du renversement de conjoncture, il continue à payer son alimentation à un prix élevé, correspondant au niveau en vigueur pour les achats massifs effectués en 2008 afin de prévenir toute crise alimentaire.
020 March 2009
FACTBOX: Foreign forays into African farming

A move by Madagascar's army-backed leader to nix a huge South Korean farming deal has exposed the risks of such ventures in Africa.
015 March 2009
Two Saudi firms eye agribusiness investment abroad

Two listed Saudi companies plan to invest in either farming or agri-business abroad under a state-sponsored plan to ensure steady food supplies.
05 March 2009
Quest for food security breeds neo-colonialists

Perhaps the UN’s hand-wringing is just sentimental. Deals will be done and the rush to buy land has begun in Europe, too.
018 February 2009
INTERVIEW-Foreign land grabs for food could fuel unrest

Big purchases of African land by richer countries in a drive for food security could fuel unrest if the rights of local farmers are not taken into consideration, a land rights campaigner warned on Wednesday.
018 February 2009
Saudis to invest $ 266m in Ethiopia and Sudan

A group of five Saudi Arabia business men have planned to invest 1 billion Saudi riyals (some $ 266.6 million) in agricultural projects in Sudan and Ethiopia within the coming few years, Pan Arab daily Asharq Al Awsat reports.
017 February 2009
HADCO Chairman talks about the Co’s Sudan investments

A number of videos interviews broadcast by Al-Arabiya are available at Zawya.com, in Arabic
017 February 2009
Saudi’s Hadco Eyes Sudan, Turkey in Food Security Push

Saudi Arabia's Hail Agricultural Development Co (Hadco) said on Monday it would look at investing in Turkey and Kazakhstan after moving into Sudan under a government plan to ensure steady food imports.
016 February 2009
Saudi Hail starts farm investment abroad in Sudan

Saudi private sector company Hail Agricultural Development Co (Hadco) has picked Sudan for its first investment in farming abroad under a Saudi government scheme to ensure steady food imports, it said.
07 February 2009
Food: The big land sell-off

With vast tracts of land being sold in Madagascar, and Sudan and other African governments actively seeking investors in agricultural land, are we witnessing a neo-colonial land grab or will the investment result in greater food productivity to the long-term benefit of recipient nations?
016 January 2009
East Africa-Middle East invest in farmland

To lure investment dollars, the Sudan government has removed import duties on agricultural equipment being imported into the country.
028 September 2008
Foreigners farm for themselves in a hungry Africa

Some of the world's richest nations are coming to grow crops and export the yields, hoping to turn the global epicenter of malnutrition into a breadbasket for themselves.