$10m Argentine farming deal mulled
    Chongqing Grain Group Co Ltd, one of China's largest State-owned grain companies, is in talks with Molino Canuelas SA, a major agribusiness group in Argentina, about joint investments totaling $10 million in a soybean farm and dairy farms in the South American country.
    • China Daily
    • 30 June 2012
    Tanzania to seek China help on farming
    Tanzania is planning to involve the Chinese government in its agriculture revolution strategy as well as establish value-adding small industries to boost agricultural products by local producers
    • The Citizen
    • 25 June 2012
    Investment fears 'scaremongering', says Emerson
    Only a fool would believe Australia's agricultural development could be funded without foreign investment from sovereign wealth funds, according to Trade Minister Craig Emerson.
    • The Land
    • 20 June 2012
    High-level backing for Chinese investment in the Ord
    Trading as Kimberley Agricultural Investments, it's understood that a Chinese investment group is interested in developing a major sugar industry in the region, as well as a meatworks capable of processing 500,000 head of cattle a year.
    • ABC
    • 08 June 2012
    Growing in greener pastures
    With demand for food rising with China's growing population and economy, domestic companies are looking to boost investments in resource-rich foreign countries such as Brazil and Indonesia to fill the food supply gap at home.
    • China Daily
    • 08 June 2012
    Chinese investors buying land
    Canadian and Chinese governments in negotiations to set up mega dairy operations in Canada to produce milk without quota, then process it in Canada with all the product going back to China.
    • Ontario Farmer
    • 07 June 2012
    China eyes wide open spaces
    China would invest billions of dollars to transform vast tracts of undeveloped land in northern Australia for farming, under a plan confirmed yesterday by the federal government.
    • Sydney Morning Herald
    • 31 May 2012
    La llegada de los chinos
    La provincia de Fujian es responsable de la avanzada asiática en los campos bonaerenses. A cambio de tener prioridad de compra sobre la cosecha instalarán un sistema de irrigación en Carmen de Patagones y Villarino. La República Popular China también se dispone a invertir en puertos y plantas de procesamiento de pescado
    • BAE
    • 31 May 2012
    China seeks free path to farmland buy-up
    The Chinese Government is seeking less scrutiny of its Australian farm raids. Sources say the Chinese are pushing the issue as part of a planned free trade agreement with Australia.
    • Weekly Times Now
    • 30 May 2012
    Arab and Chinese investments in Bulgarian agriculture
    Foreign investors have shown real interest towards Bulgarian agriculture for the past 2-3 years. The trend has changed a bit and now different Arab countries and China are the interested ones, instead of Italy, France, etc.
    • Radio Bulgaria
    • 29 May 2012
    Assessing New Zealand’s food security
    New Zealand is one of many countries upon whom China’s entrepreneurs have cast their eyes for opportunities to buy farmland, mineral and power resources to shore up China’s looming food shortage and resource-hungry economy.
    • Epoch Times
    • 07 May 2012
    Standard Chartered relativise l’ampleur de l’ «accaparement des terres» africaines par la Chine
    L’ampleur des investissements chinois dans les terres agricoles en Afrique avec pour objectif de contribuer à nourrir les quelque 1,3 milliard de Chinois, serait «exagérée», souligne une récente étude de la banque Standard Chartered.
    • EcoFin
    • 04 May 2012
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