Contract covers the lease of 25,000 ha in the Regional State of Gambela for a period of 40 years, with option for renewal, for the production of sugar cane.
Covers 10,000 ha in Gambela Regional State for the production of rice, for an initial period of 50 years, with option for renewal.
Abu Dhabi's Jenaan Investment owns and leases properties in Egypt and Sudan, as well as leasing land in Tanzania, Ethiopia and the US.
- The National
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25 November 2010
Ethiopians do not need multinational food companies to improve their livelihood.
- Anyuak Media
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24 November 2010
Neha sold off its farm in Pune and shifted operations to ethiopia where it has lands for floriculture and food grains.
- Deal Curry
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23 November 2010
Karuturi has an agreement to provide 40,000 tons of rice to neighboring Djibouti.
- Bloomberg
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12 November 2010
If what is going on in Gambella was happening in New Delhi, India; in Oxford, England; in Bismarck, North Dakota; in Saskatoon, Canada; this would be unthinkable.
Karuturi is perhaps the poster child for the big land grabs that have characterized large scale agricultural investment in Ethiopia
- Horizon Ethiopia
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28 October 2010
“If we get money [from renting out our land] we can buy food anywhere. Then we can solve [Ethiopia's] food problem,” says Abera Deressa, minister of state for agriculture
- Bloomberg
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26 October 2010
50yr lease agreement between Ethiopian government and India's Karuturi covering an initial 100,000 ha in Gambela. Contract enables Karuturi to extend concession by another 200,000 ha.
- Ethiopian Government
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25 October 2010
“I got in on the ground floor, others got in on the second floor, but there’s a lot of floors left to go in Africa’s economic cycle,” says farmland investor Sai Karuturi.
- Bloomberg
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24 October 2010
Immer mehr Länder, Nahrungsmittelkonzerne, Banken und Investmentfonds pachten langfristig Ackerland in den afrikanischen und asiatischen Entwicklungsländern.
