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26 Aug 2011Slate Afrique
Ethiopie - La famine n’arrête pas l’Inde
Les affaires sont les affaires: des entreprises indiennes d’agroalimentaire sont prêtes à investir plus d’un milliard d’euros en Ethiopie, Tanzanie et Ouganda
23 Aug 2011New Vision
North invites Indian investors
Northern Uganda has offered Indian agricultural investors land to carry out commercial farming. This offer will be under joint venture agreements with the locals.
22 Aug 2011Tanzania Daily News
Tanzania: Indian business leaders now eye Dar Es Salaam agricultural sector
Nirmal Seeds wants not more than 30,000 hectares of land in Tanzania to invest in seeds production to feed the local market.
22 Aug 2011Daily Monitor
Agri-business still an unexploited sector
Last week, Uganda received a 35 man business delegation from India interested in the country’s agribusiness potential and boosting its exploits. Mr Ramakrishna Karuturi, the leader of the delegation, said the team intends to invest up to $2 billion in agribusiness pending the issue of investment licences.
21 Aug 2011Uganda Media Centre
President Museveni receives Indian investors
The President informed them of 3 available modules of investment that they could take advantage of including processing without getting involved in physical production where an investor buys products from farmers, processes them or engage in core plantation and process the produce into finished items or contracting out-growers so that they as a community of producers can benefit.
19 Aug 2011IDEAs
India’s role in the new global farmland grab
New report provides a detailed examination of the role of the Indian government and Indian companies engaged in overseas agricultural land acquisitions in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
19 Aug 2011Guardian
Tanzania can beat Kenya in horticulture - Indian firm
Karuturi expects to acquire 311,700 ha of land in Tanzania that is similar to Ethiopia and has already applied for 1000 ha of land at Rufiji Basin, Coast Region.
18 Aug 2011Bloomberg
Karuturi global plans $500 million investment in Tanzania food production
The company plans to lease land to grow palm oil, sugar cane and cereals in Tanzania, to add to land it has acquired in Ethiopia. Karuturi is visiting Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia as part of a delegation of 35 Indian investors.
01 Aug 2011Business Standard
Punjab farmers to grow multiple crops in Ethiopia
Karuturi Global is hiring Punjabi farmers to leave India and farm its large holdings in Ethiopia
28 Jul 2011Gaia News
Land-grabbing in Madagascar: un’iniziativa popolare salva piccole porzioni di terra
Un missionario ha attuato una diversa strategia per salvare qualche lembo di terra.
27 Jul 2011Jeune Afrique
Éthiopie : la famine menace mais les agrocarburants se portent bien
Dans la Corne de l'Afrique, 12 millions de personnes souffrent de la sécheresse. Les Nations unies parlent même de famine dans plusieurs régions. Pourtant, l'État éthiopien continue de louer ses terres fertiles, délaissant une agriculture vivrière au profit de grandes exploitations tournées vers l'exportation.
21 Jul 2011swissinfo
En Ethiopie, la famine côtoie l’abondance
Alors que des millions de personnes sont gravement menacées de famine dans la Corne de l’Afrique, des investisseurs étrangers récoltent dans la même région des tonnes de céréales à destination de l’Asie ou des pays du Golfe.
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