UAE, Saudi eye more farmland leasing overseas
- Reuters
- 24 November 2010
The UAE and Saudi Arabia will continue to invest in acquiring farmland abroad as part of their strategy to secure food supplies.
The UAE and Saudi Arabia will continue to invest in acquiring farmland abroad as part of their strategy to secure food supplies.
Saudi Arabia has created a government company for agricultural investment abroad as the kingdom phases out local wheat production.
Government and private sector are creating pilot farms as an inventive to investors to either come and buy existing yielding projects, expand them or to run them as joint public-private ventures.
Recent business delegations from Iran and Qatar expressed strong interest in buying farmland in Uruguay to develop their own production projects.
Agroinvest plans to invest 1 billion riyals overseas but is waiting for details on Kingdom's policy.
Saudi Arabia and Ireland will explore possibilities on how to clinch deals with countries that can offer food security for the Kingdom
Les pays du Golfe cherchent à stimuler la production alimentaire dans d'autres pays pour soutenir leurs populations croissantes.
Groups consider land deal "treason", saying its aim is to steal Egyptian water and create a state inside the state.
Arabia Saudita busca establecer un programa de inversión para garantizar el abastecimiento de productos como trigo, carne ovina y sorgo en Chaco, Argentina
A afirmação é do secretário-executivo do Ministério da Agricultura brasileiro, Gerardo Fontelles.
Representatives of Saudi group Agro invest, a public-private agricultural investment company, are now in Brazil seeking partnerships for producing and exporting grain and poultry.
A necessidade de garantir a segurança alimentar da Arábia Saudita trouxe ao Brasil uma delegação de governo e empresários, liderada pelo ministro da Agricultura, Fahad Abduralhaman Bal Ghunaim.
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