Karuturi Global Ltd Archive

022 February 2010
Foreign agro firms scoop up Ethiopian farmland

"What Karuturi is doing is what Africa needs, wants and deserves," says Ram Karuturi. Yet 400 Ethiopians have signed a petition saying they received no compensation after being evicted from land taken over by Karuturi.
09 February 2010
Karuturi arm in PE deal talks to raise $100m

Standard Chartered Bank's Africa private equity arm and a unit of Reliance Capital are in talks to invest in Dubai-based Karuturi Overseas.
015 January 2010
Ethiopia – country of the silver sickle – offers land dirt cheap to farming giants

Karuturi believes the potential for large profits is so great that it plans to invest nearly $1bn in its Ethiopian agricultural operations
08 January 2010
Africa: Land grab or development? (NHK)

Documentary for Japan Broadcasting Corporation, focusing on Tanzania and Ethiopia
031 December 2009
Ethiopian farms lure investor funds as workers live in poverty

Until last year, people in the Ethiopian settlement of Elliah earned a living by farming their land and fishing. Now, they are employees.
07 December 2009
Al-Amoudi solicits additional arable land

Al-Amoudi's recently established Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc requested, two weeks ago, an additional 250,000 ha of land in Ethiopia for sugar beet production.
029 November 2009
Karuturi fructifies further to conquer overseas

Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, managing director of Karuturi Global Ltd was conferred with the award for business excellence in agribusiness in Africa by Corporate Council on Africa, for the year 2009.
023 November 2009
The ultimate crop rotation

Lured by a new business model, wealthy nations flock to farmland in Ethiopia, locking in food supplies grown half a world away
012 November 2009
SPECIAL REPORT-Is Africa selling out its farmers?

Many small Ethopian farmers do not share their leaders' enthusiasm for leasing off farmland to foreign investors
210 November 2009
Ethiopia leases land for agriculture to earn foreign exchange

The Ethiopian government says concerns about foreign investors exporting food are outweighed by the plantations’ capacity to bring the country foreign exchange and technology, as well as creating employment.
013 October 2009
Buying farm land and mines as local sectors languish

The UPA Government has deprived job opportunities to millions of illiterate and semi-literate Indians by forcing Indian companies to invest abroad in overseas plantations and coal mining sectors.
026 September 2009
The constant gardener

He owns land eight times the size of Mumbai, most of it in distant Ethiopia. His company, Karuturi Global, figures among the top 25 agri transnational corporations. But he wants more -- to break into the top 10 and rub shoulders with the likes of ConAgro and Cargill.
026 September 2009
The new landlords

Ramakrishna Karuturi does not feature on any international power list. Perhaps he should.
03 September 2009
Ethiopia. Now is harvest time

In June 2009, the Indian company Karuturi took up intensive farming in Ethiopia. The harvest will be exported to Asia and Europe.
03 September 2009
Ethiopie. L’heure de la moisson a sonné

Indiens et Saoudiens sont sur le point d’effectuer leur première récolte sur sol éthiopien. Le pays a prévu de céder 2,7 millions d’hectares aux étrangers.
03 September 2009
Dossier : Le grand défi alimentaire

Le gouvernement éthiopien mettra 2,7 millions d’hectares à disposition des investisseurs étrangers, 1,6 million d’ici à octobre, à des conditions privilégiées. Enquête excellente de l'Hebdo en Ethiopie et au Madagascar.
08 June 2009
Indian Company launches agro-investment project in Gambella

A multi-million birr investment project by Karuturi Global Limited, an Indian company in Etang Special Woreda of Gambella State was launched on Saturday.