Karuturi Global Ltd

Karuturi sets sight on sugarcane crushing factory
- Oromiya Government
- 19 December 2011
In three years, 15,000ha will be covered with a sugarcane plantation in Gambela Province.
Indian firms look to Africa for business opportunities
- BBC
- 11 December 2011
Karuturi Global is now one of the biggest private land owners in the world. They have invested over a quarter of a billion dollars in Ethiopia and Kenya alone. BBC reports.
Indian firms look to Africa for business opportunities
- BBC
- 11 December 2011
"We are using knowledge and resources from Latin America and North America, capital from this part of the world (India) and land from Africa to make hopefully a heady cocktail,"says Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi
Spreading in Gambella: Investment, criticism, opportunity
- Addis Fortune
- 11 December 2011
Interest by both local and international companies to lease land has been met with criticism by some outside the region, yet locals are unperturbed.
Ramakrishna Karuturi: Man behind Karuturi Global - world's largest producer of cut roses
- Economic Times
- 04 December 2011
“We have finalised deals with four big agro companies in India for joint ventures for different crops that we are looking at growing – rice, maize, oil palm and sugarcane,” says Karuturi.
Africa's farmland in demand: 'Is there a better place than this?'
- Toronto Star
- 03 December 2011
The 19th century had the Great Scramble for Africa, when developed nations raced for several decades to lay claim to new territories and their riches. This century may yet be known as the Great Selloff of Africa.
Karuturi Global earnings conference call
- KGL Investors
- 17 November 2011
Minutes from the Karuturi Global Limited Q2 FY2012 results conference call.
Karuturi denies plan to share land with Indian farmers
- Addis Fortune
- 31 October 2011
Karuturi Agro Products Plc has refuted reports that the company subleased farm land to Indian farmers, claiming instead that the Indian farmers were hired solely for consultancy services.
Karuturistan, Ethiopia: The fire next time?
- Nazret
- 17 October 2011
For Gambellans who live as pastoralist and subsistence farmers, massive dispossession and auctioning off their land for pennies will inevitably destroy the very fabric of their society and way of life and threaten them with extinction.
Karuturi to outsource Ethiopian land to Indian farmers
- Business Standard
- 12 October 2011
Karuturi Global is looking at outsourcing 20,000 hectares of farm land in the African nation to Indian farmers on a revenue-sharing basis.
The new East India Cos
- Outlook India
- 11 October 2011
Obtaining millions of hectares for farming in Africa, Indian firms are playing predator.
Karuturi to fence farm half the size of Addis
- Addis Fortune
- 09 October 2011
Karuturi Global Ltd. is to construct embankments around 25,000ha of farmland, half the size of Addis Abeba, in Gambela, at a cost of US$15 million, following its report of a loss of US$15 million due to flooding.