Singapore Archive

  • No conversion of virgin forest to food estate in Merauke: Govt09 February 2010

    No conversion of virgin forest to food estate in Merauke: Govt

    Foreign investors from China, Korea and Singapore have expressed their readiness to invest in the projects to cultivate including paddy to supply for domestic demand.
  • Liberia: GOL, Golden Veroleum in US$1.6bn negotiation012 January 2010

    Liberia: GOL, Golden Veroleum in US$1.6bn negotiation

    Indonesian 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.
  • Up for grabs: Deforestation and exploitation in Papua’s plantations boom011 November 2009

    Up for grabs: Deforestation and exploitation in Papua’s plantations boom

    The 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.
  • Vita Grain says priority is to support stock-piling of rice in Singapore06 October 2009

    Vita Grain says priority is to support stock-piling of rice in Singapore

    Vita 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.
  • CIC to buy Noble stake022 September 2009

    CIC to buy Noble stake

    China'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.
  • Timbercorp sells almond assets for $128m to Olam018 September 2009

    Timbercorp sells almond assets for $128m to Olam

    The Australian almond plantations of agribusiness group Timbercorp have been sold to Singapore-based multinational food giant Olam International for $128 million.
  • L’île Maurice en tête des acquisitions de terres rizicoles en Mozambique01 September 2009

    L’île Maurice en tête des acquisitions de terres rizicoles en Mozambique

    Le ministre des Affaires étrangères mauricien affirme que son gouvernement a acquis au Mozambique une vaste étendue de terre destinée à la production de riz pour son pays.
  • Singapore: More land for growing food01 August 2009

    Singapore: More land for growing food

    More land will be set aside for growing food while companies will be encouraged to work with farms overseas to ensure that Singapore has a ready and stable supply of produce.
  • Cambodian fund Leopard Capital makes two new investments026 June 2009

    Cambodian fund Leopard Capital makes two new investments

    The Leopard Cambodia Fund has set aside $1.8m to establish Cambodia Plantations, a Singapore-based company which will serve as an offshore finance vehicle for agricultural investments in central Cambodia. The drawdown will fund the establishment of a subsidiary that is in the process of obtaining a land concession in the province of Kompong Chhnang for rice cultivation.
  • Singapore firms aim to invest in farming118 June 2009

    Singapore firms aim to invest in farming

    At least six Singaporean companies want to start joint ventures with Cambodian partners to invest in the Kingdom's agricultural sector.
  • Food security: We need a strategy for rice017 June 2009

    Food security: We need a strategy for rice

    Singapore's Temasek is seeking to buy land in North Bolaang Mongondow, North Sulawesi, where they plan to grow high-quality rice.