Tadco Archive

• Financial Times13 Jun 10

  New Saudi company leases Asia land for rice

  TADCO subsidiary has already arranged leases in Cambodia, Vietnam, Pakistan and the Philippines for export production of aromatic and long grain basmati rice.
• Manila Times26 Nov 09

  Arabian sheik to invest in Sarangani

  Tadco has visited the Kalumbarak Skyline Village in Malungon town, Philippines, with the intention of putting up a multimillion dollar worth agricultural investment.
• Meat Trade Daily24 Nov 09

  Morocco – Drop in foreign farm investment

  At a two-day conference near the Moroccan capital Rabat, local officials sought to convince Gulf investors that heavy bureaucracy and complex land ownership rules, long seen as decisive obstacles, are a thing of the past.
• New York Times Magazine19 Nov 09

  Is there such a thing as agro-imperialism?

  There’s a whole school of economic thought that says that Collier is wrong, that big is not necessarily better in agriculture — and that the land deals therefore might be unwise not because they’re wrong but because they’re unprofitable.
• Financial Times17 Nov 09

  Saudi farms turn soil for seeds of change

  Jannat has a target of securing 100,000 to 215,000 hectares of land abroad, including $100m in African investments, says Mohammed Abdulla al-Rajhi, chairman of Jannat and deputy chairman of Tadco.
• BBC23 Oct 09

  (Secure) Food for thought

  Interview with Kieran Forde, an Irishman who works in Saudi Arabia for the Tabuk Agriculture Company (TADCO), which will be shifting food production for the Saudi market to Egypt
• GRAIN08 Sep 09

  CGIAR joins global farmland grab

  An internal document recently posted on IRRI's website reveals that the Institute has been advising Saudi Arabia in the context of its strategy to acquire farm land overseas for its own food production.
• L'Hebdo03 Sep 09

  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.
• L'Hebdo03 Sep 09

  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.
• FT24 May 09

  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.
• Reuters23 May 09

  Saudi’s Tabuk signs deals for food investment abroad

  Saudi agricultural company Tabuk Agricultural Development Co has started preparations to invest in food production abroad, driving up its stock.
• Dawn26 Apr 09

  Saudi Arabia looks to foreign farmlands to feed itself

  The issue of food security is getting higher on Riyadh’s priority list.
• Reuters29 Mar 09

  Saudi consortium eyes $40 farm investments in Africa

  A consortium of Saudi agricultural companies is looking to invest 150 million riyals ($40 million) into food production in Africa, the Agriculture Ministry said on Sunday.
• Reuters15 Mar 09

  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.