The Champasak Provincial Investment Promotion and Management Committee signed a concession agreement covering 103.14 ha with Costa Berry Lao Co. Ltd. for a berry cultivation project.
Proterra's Asia Food Fund 3 is backing a greenfield blueberry cultivation project in the southern Paksong district, Laos with Mekong Blue Singapore.
Lao Red Loong Durian is leasing 500 hectares of land in Vientiane province, Laos and has completed the development of a first-phase 60-hectare pilot zone, planting over 7,000 Black Thorn durian trees.
With 6000 hectares, the land comprises conservation areas, a plywood mill, and a voluntary carbon project focused on plantation afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation issuing carbon credits
Authorities in Attapeu province have awarded concessions to three Lao companies, enabling them to grow durian on hundreds of hectares of land as part of the government’s broader effort to boost the cultivation of fruit on a commercial basis.
Australia-based Costa Group has launched a new blueberry farming project on the Bolaven Plateau in Laos, starting with 17 hectares of crops at Paksong.
HAGL, a major Vietnamese agriculture firm, has doubled its durian farming area to 2,000 hectares and expanded its banana farming area by 40% to 7,000 hectares in the past two years.
The country’s improved railway connectivity facilitates fruit exports to China but has also sparked a boom in foreign-owned banana and durian farms, leading to deforestation.
One Chinese company that has joined Laos' durian rush is Jiarun, an infrastructure builder that has vowed to establish the world's largest durian plantation in Attapeu, a remote province in southern Laos, on 5,000 ha it has secured on a 50-year lease from the Laotian government.
China's Asia Tobacco Industry Group says it will will build a crop oil processing plant, a cattle farm, a plant to produce feed for cattle and various aquatic species, and a fertiliser processing plant, as well as supporting farmers to cultivate bananas and sugarcane.
Donor-designed forest carbon projects and private sector companies like Burapha Agro-Forestry are facing insurmountable challenges from an age-old problem: land tenure insecurity.
A 20% year-over-year increase of agricultural exports from Laos in 2023 was largely on the back of Chinese plantations, according to trade officials, meaning that the country will reap few of the profits.
