Russia

Le président russe Vladimir Poutine invite les investisseurs étrangers à investir dans l’exploration des terres agricoles en Russie.

Analysts are warning of a looming food crisis, while on the other hand, pointing to plenty of land, uncultivated but fit for farming, in the Russian Far East.

Authorities say the land is owned by the government, but the activists claim the previously state-owned land already has been awarded to a Russian company to be developed as a plantation.

Gérard Louis-Dreyfus, l'ancien président du groupe de négoce du même nom, et son neveu Peter Mann ont créé une société avec la holding russe Sistema afin d'investir dans les terres agricoles en Russie où ils visent « 150.000 à 250.000 hectares à moyen terme »

Combined firm, RZ Agro Holding Ltd., will control 97,500 ha in the Rostov Region of Russia.

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.