Ag Trends and Outlook|Deal Tracking

Morocco will lease 600,000 hectares of agricultural land to local and foreign investors to generate US$17 billion by 2020.

Dubai-based camel milk and products company has seen a 100% growth in a year and demand still outpaces supply.

Perdue will more than double its contracted acreage of Plenish high-oleic soybeans around its Salisbury facility in 2014.

Chinese outbound agricultural direct investment represented 15% of all outbound direct investment for the first half of 2013.

Deere & Co. will be investing $40 million to upgrade its factory in Montenegro, Brazil to produce its line of 8R tractors.

The U.S.-based company that owns Cadbury and Vegemite brands is interested in a major investment in the Ord River irrigation scheme.

The Indian government is considering significantly liberalizing its policies concerning FDI in order to attract investors.

Monsanto Canada plans to develop corn hybrids that would mature in as little as 70 days through its Canada Corn Expansion Project.

Australia’s Senate calls for the threshold for review and approval of foreign farm purchases to be reduced.