Australia's dairy industry is the new flavour of the month among foreign investors, with global pension funds, food companies and wealthy individuals turning their focus from New Zealand towards Victoria and Tasmania.
The chairman of the New Hope Group is a key Chinese partner in the Sino-Australia 100-Year Agricultural and Food Safety Partnership-- an initiative founded by mining billionaire Andrew Forrest
WEMS Agro Companies Limited plans to invest about $2.2 million into rice cultivation in a 25,000 ha rice project in Ondo state with Chinese partners.
While Chinese investors, like Ms Qiao, are in Australia looking at farms, an Australian real estate company has headed to China to find buyers for Australian farming properties.
A new $3 billion fund jointly initiated by the Beijing Agricultural Investment Fund and Yuhu Agriculture Investment Pty Ltd. is planning to invest $3 billion capital in various projects in Australia.
Authorities of Quanzhou city in China’s Fujian province have expressed their interest in agricultural investment in growing rice and organic vegetables to supply the Chinese market.
Some experts say that the Chinese engagement in African agriculture is still in the exploratory stage.
Georgian government signs MOU with Chinese counterparts for $20-25 million investments in the agricultural sector in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.
China's Sichuan province is in talks to invest $300 million in cotton, rice and fruit production in Uganda, a senior Ugandan official said on Wednesday.
Global private equity firm KKR has returned to China’s agriculture industry this week with a $400 million deal for a minority stake in Fujian Sunner Development, a vertically integrated chicken meat producer.
La société chinoise Cgc International a sollicité 30.000 hectares de terrain pour cultiver le manioc à Pointe-Noire, principal centre économique et industriel du Congo.
La compra por parte del consorcio estatal chino COFCO de dos de las exportadoras multinacionales de granos más grandes de las instaladas en Argentina encendió las voces de alarma en cuanto a la concentración del comercio exterior de granos por parte de las empresas orientales.
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