Mitsui

Mitsui begins shifting its focus to agribusiness
- The Australian
- 01 February 2014
The top priority for Mitsui's massive investments in Australia is starting to shift from resources to agribusiness
Mitsui delves further into Brazil agriculture sector
- Reuters
- 09 July 2013
SLC Agricola, one of Brazil's largest soybean producers with cotton, corn and coffee operations, will have a 50.1 percent participation in the venture that will start operations in the northern frontier agricultural state of Bahia.
China's New Hope to set up overseas investment fund
- Reuters
- 16 November 2011
China's largest animal feed producer will launch an overseas fund this month with international investors, including Singapore's Temasek Holdings, that will set up farms in the Middle East, South Africa and central Europe.
Landgrabbing: anche la Svizzera è coinvolta.
- L'OrA deLL'EReSia!
- 26 May 2011
Panoramica delle cosietà elvetiche coinvolte nell'accparramento di terre.
La Suisse et l’accaparement des terres
- Domaine Public
- 26 May 2011
Des sociétés basées en Suisse possèdent et gèrent des surfaces considérables dans les pays en développement
Mitsui toma controle da Multigrain
- Valor Econômico
- 14 January 2011
A japonesa Mitsui confirmou na quinta-feira que fechou acordo para comprar, por US$ 225 milhões, a participação de 44,2% que a cooperativa americana CHS tem na trading Multigrain
Mitsui to pay 40 billion yen for Brazil company, Nikkei reports
- Bloomberg
- 12 January 2011
Mitsui plans to buy 44.2% of Brazilian grain broker Multigrain SA, who owns in excess of 100,000 ha of farmland, equal to 2% of the total cultivated land of Japan
Overseas interest in farming assets
- Otago Daily Times
- 24 October 2009
Cash-rich overseas pension funds and investors have been scouting for New Zealand dairy farm investments,
Japan changes tack to fix food shortage
- Financial Times
- 03 August 2009
After focusing for decades on oil, metals and minerals, Japan's huge trading houses are turning to agricultural commodities, with Tokyo enthusiastically supporting the shift amid concerns about local and global food security .
Aso takes aim at wealthy states' 'land grabs' in developing world
- Japan Times
- 08 July 2009
Prime Minister Taro Aso says he will call on world to develop principles promoting responsible foreign investment in agriculture in the face of "land grabs" of large-scale farmland in poor nations to ensure food supplies for wealthy nations.
Japan to promote farm investment overseas for food security
- Bloomberg
- 27 April 2009
Japan is considering providing loans from a government-owned bank for companies to purchase and lease farmland abroad, Munemitsu Hirano, counsellor at the international affairs department of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, said.
Mitsui May Boost Farm Investment Overseas on Demand
- Bloomberg
- 16 December 2008
Mitsui & Co., Japan's second-largest trading company, may increase investment in farming overseas to secure food supplies as competition from China, the biggest grain consumer, intensifies. The company is seeking new targets after taking a 39.35 percent stake in Multigrain AG, which produces soybeans in Brazil, the world's second-largest grower.