With commodity prices at record highs, New Zealand must protect its global advantage by keeping New Zealand land for New Zealand citizens, permanent residents and companies, Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman said today.
Black River's investment pipeline includes a Chinese pork producer and distributor, a duck farming firm in northern China, a fish producer in Costa Rica and a frozen fish processor in Singapore.
China's Cofco Corporation has acquired an equity stake in Australian sugar producer Tully Sugar and is said to be pursuing a take-over.
- The Cairns Post
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20 April 2011
La compañía de inversiones de China, Shanghai Pengxin Group, tiene pensado invertir US$ 158 millones en la compra de establecimientos lecheros en Nueva Zelanda (las estancias de Crafar).
Las preocupaciones de que la creciente presencia china esté socavando la soberanía local han llegado a su punto más alto en Argentina, donde el gobierno de la provincia de Río Negro firmó en 2010 un acuerdo con la corporación china Beidahaung Group para arrendar unas 320 mil hectáreas de sus mejores terrenos agrícolas para la producción de soya, trigo, colza y otros productos.
- Americas Program
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17 April 2011
Chinese and other eastern investors are looking to buy agriculture land and agribusiness across the globe, and Ukraine is increasingly on their radar.
Selling the Crafar farms to an overseas consortium cannot possibly be in New Zealand’s economic interests, says Green Party Co-leader.
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15 April 2011
Agria has lifted its stake in PGG Wrightson to 50.5%, putting control of New Zealand's biggest rural services company in Chinese hands.
Chinese group Chongqing Grain is due to launch an agri-industrial project expected to cost 4 billion reals (US$2.4 billion) in the state of Bahia, Brazil, the state’s secretary for Agriculture said.
Entretanto, com a crescente compra de terras brasileiras por chineses (dados do Incra falam em 5,5 milhões de hectares, mas o relatório estima que já sejam 7 milhões), os importadores do gigante asiático estariam se interessando mais por mercadorias elaboradas
"A China vem consolidando há alguns anos uma base internacional de matérias-primas e o Brasil passou a fazer parte desta base de fornecedores", diz o estudo. De fato, o maior volume de investimentos provenientes da China tem sido voltado para as áreas de petróleo, mineração e produção agrícola.
China no se conforma con ser el mayor importador de soja de Brasil. Quiere más. Su meta es entrar cada vez con mayor fuerza e importancia en su cadena de producción a través de acuerdos de exportación con agricultores locales, compras de tierras e inversiones en industrias
