Karuturi Global Ltd

Who's behind the land grabs?
- GRAIN
- 16 October 2012
A slide show by GRAIN that profiles some of those who have been most actively pursuing or supporting farmland grabs around the world.
Karuturi seeks $100 million to start Ethiopian sugar plantation
- Bloomberg
- 13 June 2012
The company has approached the African Development Bank, the African Export-Import Bank and the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank to raise another $100 million for a sugarcane estate.
The not-so-rosy realities of running a large agriculture project in Africa
- HowWeMadeItInAfrica
- 09 June 2012
Despite the lucrative returns that foreign investors can achieve by investing in African agriculture, the on-the-ground realities of operating in the continent is often less rosy.
Indian farmer’s African safari
- Business World
- 02 June 2012
Karuturi, which has 300,000 ha in Ethiopia, is now targeting the DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
India's Karuturi eyes Ethiopia exports to S.Sudan, Kenya
- Reuters
- 09 May 2012
Indian-listed Karuturi Global, which has leased land in Ethiopia for commercial farming, plans to export cereals, sugar and edible oil to South Sudan and Kenya upon completing cultivation in 2014.
Karuturi: Why the hype?
- Rural Modernity
- 07 April 2012
How corporate transparency encourages secrecy - the counterproductive role of many NGO's.
Beyond the rosy picture
- Business Today
- 28 Mar 2012
Largest cut flower exporter Karuturi Global ventures into food business
Karuturi may rope in sugar major for African project
- Business Standard
- 26 Mar 2012
Company looks to tide over land-grabbing allegations, devastating flood for its $300mn project in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia announces the opening of a new honorary consulate in Bangalore
- Business Wire
- 29 February 2012
"Galaxy of diplomats" in attendance for the inauguration of Mr Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi, Managing Director of Karuturi Global Ltd, as an Honorary Consul of Ethiopia in Bangalore.
In pictures: Land leasing or land grabbing?
- BBC
- 24 February 2012
“I wouldn’t define it as land grabbing. We exploit the economic opportunities which came about after the food price shock of 2007,” says Birinder Singh, the manager of Karuturi Agro Products. BBC slideshow.
Ethiopia: Land grabs are fueling violence in Gambela
- ASO
- 22 February 2012
The growing insecurity and violence in Gambela, seen in the recent loss of human lives and attacks on government institutions, should be seen as a clear warning to investors about the dangers involved in large scale agricultural investments, says the Anywaa Survival Organisation.
Controversial Karuturi to go public, here
- Addis Fortune
- 30 January 2012
Karuturi Agro Products Plc, part of holding company Karuturi Glolabal Ltd, is planning to go public, floating 200,000 shares worth 1,000 Br each to Ethiopian investors, once it gets the nod from its board of directors.

Sign the petition to stop the deployment of police/military and criminalisation of peasants struggling for their land against oil palm plantation company in Buol Regency, Sulawesi, Indonesia