China

Chinese market for beef soaring; companies after overseas farms and processors
- MercoPress
- 17 July 2013
Chinese meat firms are looking abroad to scout for potential acquisition targets among beef farmers and processors.
L'achat de terres par les Chinois à l'étranger ne devrait pas être critiqué
- China Internet Info Centre
- 07 July 2013
"D'aucuns estiment que la presse française a mal interprété un certain nombre d'investissements chinois classiques et que la Chine et la France doivent davantage se faire confiance," écrit le gouvernement chinois.
Malaysia, China investors eyeing Indonesian rice
- Jakarta Globe
- 07 July 2013
A group of Malaysia and Chinese investors are looking to invest as much as $2 billion in Indonesia’s integrated rice farms in the next seven years.
Olive oil: China hits the grove
- CIT
- 26 June 2013
Steep growth in Chinese olive oil consumption, unlikely to be met soon by a budding domestic supply, is encouraging investors to get hold of olive farms and processing plants in producing countries.
An investment company tries its hand at farming
- Caixin
- 20 June 2013
China's Legend Holdings went on a buying binge, both at home and abroad, taking over a blueberry farm in Qingdao, a kiwi fruit company in Sichuan Province and five Chilean fruit companies.
Chinese flooded with land offers
- West Australian
- 19 June 2013
Companies linked to China's biggest agricultural conglomerate are being flooded with offers to buy or lease "hundreds of thousands" of hectares of land in Australia's Wheatbelt in the early stages of their bid to create an independent grain supply chain from the port of Albany.
Mo. moves to lift ban on foreign farm ownership
- AP
- 18 June 2013
Weeks before a Chinese conglomerate agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. in the largest such takeover of a US business, Missouri lawmakers quietly approved legislation removing a ban on foreign ownership of agricultural land.
Les Chinois investissent dans les prairies canadiennes pour nourrir l'Asie
- AFP
- 16 June 2013
Pour satisfaire l'appétit insatiable de l'Asie, des immigrés chinois investissent depuis peu des millions de dollars dans les prairies de l'Ouest canadien.
Smithfield embodies China’s record hunger for farm assets
- Bloomberg
- 12 June 2013
China is headed to spend a record this year on food assets and farms after a $32.7 billion splurge in the past five years and just $4.2 billion in the prior half-decade, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Foreign owner laws may stymie China's US pork move
- Reuters
- 10 June 2013
Decades-old laws barring foreign ownership of farmland in Iowa, Missouri and at least three other Midwest states may complicate Chinese company Shuanghui International's $4.7 billion planned purchase of US pork powerhouse Smithfield Foods.
Smithfield Foods: el frigorífico porcino número uno del mundo que ahora es chino
- Info Campo
- 08 June 2013
Es la compra más importante de una empresa norteamericana por capitales chinos y por otra parte, cambia el panorama del negocio porcino del mundo, al tiempo que muestra a las claras la necesidad creciente e inmediata que hoy tiene China para abastecerse de alimentos.
Chinese farms go global
- The Diplomat
- 31 May 2013
If the Chinese government is to achieve its goal of accelerated urbanization, one issue it must deal with is food security. As China has developed more of its land, concerns have developed over whether enough arable land will be available to produce enough food to feed its massive population.