German-based Ekosem-Agrar unveiled a E50m bond issue to raise funds for doubling its Russian milking herd, and expanding its 160,000-hectare landbank, extending the wave of investment heading into the country's dairy market.
Trigon Agri unveiled plans to expand in Russia through the acquisition of a "large scale" farm operator - and to become Europe's top dairy producer - as it unveiled its first annual profit.
Les paysans du nord-est de la Chine, de la péninsule coréenne et récemment du Japon sont de plus en plus attirés par les vastes terres de l'extrême-orient de la Russie, écrit l'« Asahi Shimbun ».
Since food prices jumped in the period from 2006 to 2008, efforts to borrow land in the Russian Far East for agriculture have spread rapidly.
La Russie pourrait louer plusieurs millions d'hectares de terres agricoles non utilisées à des investisseurs asiatiques.
Russia is willing to discuss leasing farm land in the Far East to Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation member countries. The Ministry for Economic Development has stated that a group of 20 projects is intended to bring in tens of billions of dollars in investments.
Singapore's commodity trader Olam International is partnering with Russian Dairy Company LCC in the dairy and grains business and will jointly invest $400 million in Russia over the next five years.
Bonduelle is set to acquire the Russian operations of French rival CECAB, including its 6000-hectare 'kolkhoze' farm.
Au XVIIIe siècle, la Grande Catherine avait décidé de faire appel à des agriculteurs allemands pour cultiver le sol de la Russie. A un moment, on a dénombré plusieurs milliers de colons. Quelque 250 ans après, l'histoire se répète.
German farmer plans to expand his operation to 250,000 hectares, an area the size of the state of Saarland, and to float his company on the stock market in Germany, where he pays a portion of his taxes.
Russia’s VTB Capital plans $1bn agriculture fund which will begin by buying assets in Russia and Kazakhstan – from land to processing companies.
NCH has been able—by direct purchase or lease—to acquire, aggregate and operationalize roughly 700,000 hectares of prime farmland in Russia, Ukraine and other Eastern European countries at a fraction of their actual value.
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