Malaysia

Une société malaisienne prendra contrôle de 470.000 hectares au Congo, sous forme de concession, pour la production des palmiers à l'huile, a annoncé samedi le ministre de l’agriculture, Rigobert Maboundou.

La société Atama plantation de la Malaisie entend investir plus de 150 millions de Franc CFA pour la mise en œuvre des complexes agro-industriels de palme à huile sur une superficie totale de 169 000 ha au Congo.

An established business group in Bahrain is seeking large tracts of land to grow rice and rear cattles in Malaysia.

Sudan is seeking to attract at least $1bn of capital for its agricultural sector from Arab and Asian investment groups, which are turning to Africa in search of new food supplies as their governments try to manage the impact of commodity price inflation.

US agribusiness group Bunge Ltd is actively scouting out for palm plantations in Indonesia and Malaysia to cater to rising demand from Asian economies

"We have Indonesians and Malaysians coming in and saying we want 100,000 hectares to make PNG a rice producing country," says PNG’s Deputy Prime Minister Sir Puka Temu

Wilmar, which already owns 200,000 ha of sugar cane plantations in Indonesia, said it intended to use Sucrogen’s proven expertise in the sugar business to pursue growth strategies in “Indonesia and other high potential Asian markets.’’

Joint venture with the India/UAE Allana Group acquires 20,000 head of cattle owned by Felda and gains access to over 850,000 hectares of oil palm land.

Immediate projects to be promoted under Saudi Arabia's Private Investment Fund might concern livestock production in the East Coast Economic Region, according to former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

Cargill Inc., the world’s largest agribusiness company, has announced the sale of their palm oil plantations in the remote tropical nation of Papua New Guinea (PNG)

An ambitious project pooling New Zealand's farming expertise has received a fillip from Emirates Investment Group. Through EIG, there are two large Pakistan projects on the cards, one involving a 35,000ha farm.

Sime Darby, which is expected to employ an estimated 22,000 Liberians over the next 10 years, will cultivate roughly 220,000 hectares of land in four counties including Gbarpolu, Bomi, Grand Cape Mount and Bong.