Altima Restructure Fund Ltd. (Altima), a unit of an international agricultural investor Altima Partners, has acquired an 8.18 pct stake in Russian agricultural holding Gruppa Razgulyay.
Chinese firms already lease or control at least 600,000 hectares of land in Russia's Far East, which is equivalent to the size of a small U.S. state like Delaware.
Fund sells large scale pork farm in Russia to Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods.
Interest in farming from a new class of institutional investors — including hedge, endowment, pension, private equity and sovereign wealth funds — has surged.
Mikhail Orlov, after having sold his Russian farming operations and shifted focus to Zambia, is back with a 4,800 cow dairy farm project in Chechnya.
The group said it had acquired 10,000 hectares of land during the half year, taking its total portfolio to 186,000 hectares, of which it owns 101,000 hectares.
Irrico, the Russia-based agricultural investment company, revealed it is on the verge of doubling its land portfolio as it unveiled it had attracted a third investor, emerging markets private equity group Hong Kong-based ADM Capital.
Entre le Caucase et la mer Noire, le groupe familial français cultive l’équivalent de la surface de Paris.
Des achats de propriétés viticoles en France servent-ils à blanchir de l'argent sale via des montages financiers complexes ?
Charoen Pokphand Foods acquires majority stake in Russian pork producer Russia Baltic Pork Invest of Norway, giving it a 8,000ha grain farm and several large scale pig farms in Kaliningrad.
Farmland prices are firming across much of Central and Eastern Europe, as interest from institutional investors -- mainly pension funds -- begins to translate into transactions on the ground.
North Korea will dispatch dozens of laborers this spring to grow corn, beans and vegetables on 1,000 hectares of farmland in the Russian Far East, local government sources said
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Thailand: Stop foreign land grabs
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