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NZ Herald24 Aug 10Olam International raised its offer for NZ Farming Systems Uruguay to 70 cents from 55 cents a day after the target company disclosed a third bidder is looking at the dairy farm develope
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Financial Times17 Aug 10Singapore-listed Golden Agri Resources said it was “actively evaluating” taking a share in a 220,000-hectare project being offered by the government of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
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Bloomberg15 Aug 10Singapore-based Olam will develop a palm-oil plantation covering as much as 300,000 hectares in the southeast of the country.
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Xinhua15 Aug 10 Olam, multinationale basée à Singapour réalisera un programme de développement de 200.000 hectares de palmeraies pour un investissement total de 800 millions USD.
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NZ Herald22 Jul 10If the offer is successful, Singapore's Olam will either hold 100 per cent or between 50.1 per cent and 90 per cent of NZ Farming Systems Uruguay
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Reuters24 Jun 10A tribe of hunter gatherers living in trees in the forests of Papua, near the planned Merauke food estate where Wilmar and other firms plan to get farmland, has been discovered officially for the first time.
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Reuters21 Jun 10Singapore's Wilmar, the world's largest listed palm oil firm, wants to invest $2 billion in Indonesia where they are targeting Merauke to develop sugar cane plantations
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Noble Group14 Jun 10The Company intends to develop approximately 32,500 ha of land for palm oil production in Sorong Regency, West Papua Province, Indonesia.
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PTI27 May 10An increasing number of Indian companies are expected to use Singapore as a springboard for their global operations, including overseas farmland investments
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Change.org27 May 10Better food and know-how for China, more food for Singapore: if the deal actually comes to pass, it strikes me as a fairly solid bargain, writes Te-Ping Chen.
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Reuters21 May 10Singapore plans to help develop a $16 billion agricultural project in northeastern China as the city-state aims to boost its food security.
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Straits Times21 May 10Singapore could gain access to a major new source of meat, fruit and vegetables if a massive new farming project in north-eastern China takes off
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AFP25 Apr 10Government of Singapore has set up a fund to support feasibility studies on investments in overseas food zones, overseas contract farming and other non-traditional sources of food security for the city-state.
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Jakarta Post09 Feb 10Foreign investors from China, Korea and Singapore have expressed their readiness to invest in the projects to cultivate including paddy to supply for domestic demand.
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Liberian Observer12 Jan 10Indonesian global palm oil giant, Golden Agri-Veroleum will invest more than US$1.6 billion dollars on more than 240,000 hectares of oil palm to boost the country’s oil palm sector.
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AVA10 Dec 09In the area of food diversification, AVA will co-fund feasibility studies on investments in overseas food zones, overseas contract farming and sourcing of rice, chicken, pork, fish, eggs and leafy vegetables from non-traditional sources or existing sources that are not major exporters to Singapore
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EIA11 Nov 09The planned expansion of plantations in the Papuan provinces of Indonesia should be immediately suspended and reviewed amid concerns over massive deforestation and widespread exploitation of local communities, environmentalists warned today.
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![Vita Grain says priority is to support stock-piling of rice in Singapore]( "Vita Grain says priority is to support stock-piling of rice in Singapore")
Business Times06 Oct 09Vita Grain Group, which is backed by US $60 million of funding, owns more than 20 different strains of hybrid rice seeds. Vita Grain is looking for funding to expand its seed production beyond Africa to Asia, the US and South America. The company is also setting up a rice mill in Mauritius and is in talks with partners in Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique to develop rice production units.
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Reuters22 Sep 09China's sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corp, has bought a 14.5 per cent stake in grain trading and production firm Noble Group for US$850 million.
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![Timbercorp sells almond assets for $128m to Olam]( "Timbercorp sells almond assets for $128m to Olam")
The Age18 Sep 09The Australian almond plantations of agribusiness group Timbercorp have been sold to Singapore-based multinational food giant Olam International for $128 million.