Investment in Ukraine Land Makes Sense

Soft commodities are widely believed to be the investment of the future and a must-have in any self-discerning portfolio. Recent studies and statistics show that if you invest in soft commodities via agricultural land in Ukraine you are on to a winner.

Ukraine farmland with its “perfect balance of sunshine and rainfall is bursting with marketable products”. “Ukraine agricultural land stands to explode on to the world agricultural stage.”

– Ukraine farmland with its “perfect balance of sunshine and rainfall is bursting with marketable product...

Picture of Bulgarian farming district of Dobrudzha, near North Bulgarian coast.

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Korea to Encourage Companies to Farm Abroad to Ensure Supplies

April 3 (Bloomberg) -- South Korea, Asia’s second-biggest grain importer, will lend money and give technology to companies to develop farms overseas to ensure the nation’s food security after prices surged last year.

“It will yield good profitability in the lon...

Farm prices are falling more quickly than house prices, with many farms losing a quarter of their value over the past six months.

Latest figures from the Real Estate Institute show the median farm selling price was $1.26 million in the three months to February, down 27.6 percent compared to the median of $1.74m for the three months to August last year when the market was at its pea...

Agro businesses get BGN 577m in direct payments

Bulgaria’s crop farmers received BGN 577 million inside three months in direct payments for 2008 following calls to be subsidise...

A bull market in grains

"I remain a devoted long-term soft commodities ...

The food crisis this year generated unprecedented interest in Cambodian agricultural land, and governments are scrambling for access to the country's vast food-growing potential
 

Oil-rich Persian Gulf states are making a headlong rush for farmland. 

Most of these countries heavily rely on food imports at a time when global food prices surged 57% between Aprils 2007 to 2008, according to the United Nations.

With food riots breaking out in impoverished countries, as well as rationing in industrialized nations such as the U.S., the Persian Gulf ...

Schroders Plans to Raise $480 Million for Global Farmland Fund

By Simon Packard

Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Schroders Plc, the U.K.'s largest publicly traded money manager, will ...

Bulgaria harvests 1.6 mln tons of premium wheat. At least 1.6 mln of Bulgaria's 4.3 mln ton wheat crop harvested this year is of premium quality, said Zlati Zlatev, director of the government's grain executive service.

The government official dismissed as untrue earlier reports that as much as 80% of the wheat crop was only good enough for animal feed and the country would have ...

Nubricks.com quoted a former investor in agricultural land near Bourgas, who bought the property for nine euro a sq m. Two years later, after completing the regulation procedure, the owner sold the plot for 60 euro a sq m to a developer whose intention was to build holiday houses.

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WHILE the housing market slides, the reverse has been happening with agricultural land values, according to the latest rural research from the estate agents Savills.

In the second quarter of this year land values across Britain rose 10 per cent to average £4,500 per acre.

During the first three months of 2008, values increased by 17 ...

VICKSBURG -- The developers weren't laughing when Vicksburg village trustee Ray Vliek, 87, quipped at a recent meeting: ``By golly, I believe I'd tear those houses down and put in corn.''

Developers paid $1...

Ukraine: in 2008/09 MY grain export to total 13.5-14 mln tonnes

In view of the planned for 2008 grain yield at the level of 40 mln tonnes, next season Ukraine may export 13.5-14 mln tonnes of grain, reported Yuriy Melnik, Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine.

He noted that in 2008/09 MY wheat, barley and ...

The Agricultural Investment Fund "Ceres', one of the biggest investors in agricultural land s in Bulgaria has invested just in 2008, BGN 2 M in farming machinery and plans to invest at least this amount in 2009, according to the company's pres release Tuesday.

The Investment Fund has the goal to accelerate its farming business, which is located ma...

Food prices have been rocketing over the past year, with the average basket of groceries now costing families almost 10 per cent more than it did last summer. According to the Office of National Statistics, food prices increased by 8.7 per cent in the y...

Vast areas of farmland lie idle, reports

Across a great arc of the Eurasian steppe from Ukraine through Russia to Kazakhstan lies enough arable land to feed the world for years to come, with spare for biofuels to help plug the energy gap.

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Agribusiness eyes potential in Ukraine's fertile fields

"Look at the colour, what a beautiful crop," says Richard Spinks, pointing to wheat and rapeseed fields that his company sowed this season in western Ukraine.<...