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09/08/2011
15 reasons why you need to invest in agricultural land, sooner rathe...
Here are 15 facts that make it clear that investing in agricultural land makes a lot of sense..
#1 According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. corn reserves will drop to a 15-year low by the end of 2011.
#2 The United Nations says that the global price of food hit another new all-time high in the month of January.
#3 The price of corn has doubled in the past six months.
#4 T
08/15/2011
No recession for corn farmers
Prices of corn have rocketed over the past year by around 200%, as per the chart. This is despite more planting of the crop by the main producer, America.
Reasons for this are a late season drought in USA and the US government’s bright idea to force use of ethanol in fuel production, which is mostly made from corn.
The USDA said the corn surplus could dwindle next fall to o
08/12/2011
Bulgaria to pay out 1.3B leva in subsidies to farmers in 2012
Bulgaria will earmark 1.3 billion leva for subsidies from the EU and national budget to support the country's agriculture sector in 2012, up from 1.1 billion leva allocated this year.
The move was approved at a meeting held between Finance Minister Simeon Dyankov, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naidenov and representatives of agricultural organisations.
The meeting was the first s
06/23/2011
Price of rapeseed will remain high Australian experts say
The Australian experts say that the high prices of the rapeseed and the rapeseed oil will remain stable until end of this year.
Prices will probably remain the same because of the deficit of the rapeseed on the global markets. Producers like Canada and some European countries suffer difficulties in growing it due to unsuitable atmospheric conditions.
This year, Austral
05/29/2011
Prices of food in Bulgaria increase by 50% for a year
Sharp increase of main food prices in May 2011 compared to last year has been reported by the Commodity Exchanges and Wholesale Markets State Commission.
Potatoes are more expensive with 75%. Currently, they are traded at least at 1-1,10 leva per kg. On the market they are sold at an average price of 1,50 leva per kg.
Other commodities have also reached 50% increase. Suga
05/19/2011
Producer prices in agriculture are rising by 22% per year
The index of producer prices in agriculture rises by 22% on a yearly basis for the first quarter of 2011, the National Statistic Institute (NSI) announced.
Prices in plant-growing rose by 54,7%, and in stock breeding – by 10,1%.
Increase has been indicated in cereal crops as well: by 71,3%, industrial crops by 41,7%, cattle – 4,5% and animal products – 1
05/13/2011
Chinese Companies Seek to Invest Big in Bulgarian Agriculture
Chinese companies have demonstrated committed interest in investment in Bulgaria's agriculture, according to Agriculture and Foods Minister Miroslav Naydenov.
Naydenov met Friday with a Chinese business delegation, including Tianjin State Farms Agribusiness Group Company, which declared its readiness to rent 100 000 decares of land, mostly in Northwestern Bulgaria.
Tian
05/11/2011
Bulgairan Farmers to Register Their Land for Subsidies in Advance
The agricultural ministry plans to bring in new system for registering the arable land, which can receive direct payments from the EU and the government budget.
According to the current system, each year farmers declare the land they cultivate, and after that the state fund ‘Agriculture’ investigates whether they can apply for subsidies and are the land is not yet decl
04/30/2011
Bulgaria's Agriculture Sector with Impressive Export Growth in 2010
Bulgaria's agriculture sector appears to be taking off, according to data presented by the Agriculture Ministry and the National Statistical Institute.
Agriculture is one of the few sectors of the Bulgarian economy with positive trade balance, according to the Bulgarian Ministry of Agriculture and Foods.
In 2010, Bulgaria's agriculture trade balance was positive USD 944
04/26/2011
UK agricultural land predicted to increase by 50% in the next 5 years
Farmland prices in the UK are expected to rise by 50% in the next 5 years after they hit record with 100% rise for the past four years.
Agricultural land prices have continued to go up in the first three months of 2011, driven by a shortage of supply and strong demand from private investors and farmers.
According to Savills, the prices in the UK rose by 2.7% to £5,7
04/14/2011
Bulgaria attracting farmland buyers
Demand for food commodities are rising across the world as population and demand rises. Prices are rising sharply and investors are increasingly looking for the best places to benefit from this trend. They would be well advised to look at Bulgaria. It offers some of the best farmland in Europe, has an excellent growing climate and prices are still low.
And now, the icing on the cake for farm
04/12/2011
UN Warns: World Food Prices May Rise Again
World food prices that fell from a record last month may rebound, the United Nations said, after grains rallied on reports of shrinking stockpiles.
Prices have rallied recently as U.S. corn stockpiles fell to their lowest since 2007 and soybean inventories have shrunk to the smallest since 2003. Costlier food contributed to riots across northern Africa and the Middle East that toppled
04/01/2001
Full EU farming subsidies for Bulgaria in 2014
Bulgarian minister of agriculture Naydenov: Equalization of the agricultural subsidies remains Bulgaria’s priority
The main demand Bulgaria has for amendment in the Common Agricultural Policy after 2014 continues to be the equalization of the subsidies Bulgarian (as a new member state) and older member states farmers receive.
This was announced to the Parliament Commissions on agric
03/23/2011
Buy large areas of Europe's best farmland for a low price
Uaproperty.com, which has been a portal for foreigners wanting to buy real estate in Ukraine for over 6 years. They are now offering their great experience in land procurement and contract negotiation to clients seeking farmland.
The consutancy services offers the following service:
* Finding of farmland according to client requirements, as to size and crops.
* Negotiation of best lease p
03/12/2011
Brazil restricts foreign government land investments
Record-high food prices are driving new economic pressures — beyond the obvious surge in costs to consumers.
In Brazil, for example, officials look set to introduce new rules on foreign government-backed investments in farmland, a move that would extend sweeping foreign-ownership restrictions adopted last year.
While there is some talk that Brazil could scale back slightly some of th
03/12/2011
Arab farmland grab
Less than 40 years ago the UAE was populated by small local communities who lived satisfactorily off the desert land. Their meals consisted mostly of locally sourced livestock and produce.
Now, only a few generations later, the dinner tables around the UAE are heaving with rice from India, tuna from Japan, mushrooms from France and meat from Brazil. A steadily growing expatriate population wi
03/12/2011
S. Korea increases farming overseas to meet rising food demand
South Korea, the world’s third- biggest corn buyer, may increase grain production overseas as the country seeks to boost food security amid record global prices, the government said.
“The need to develop overseas agricultural resources has never been felt more because global grain prices are rising rapidly,” the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in
03/10/2011
Bulgarian Farmers to Receive 100% Finance For Farms Modernization
Farmers will rely on 100 Mln Leva from the State Fund ‘Agriculture’
For the first time this year, farmers can rely on a full 100% finance from the State Fund “Agriculture” under the measure “Modernization of farming”, said the executive director of the fund Svetoslav Simeonov.
He specified that the possibility for transferring funds from unattractive mea
03/07/2011
Bulgaria’s Joint Investment Venture with Arab country
Bulgaria's Parliament has approved the setting up of a joint venture between the Bulgarian National Company Industrial Zones and the Qatar Investment Authority.
The joint venture of the Government of Bulgaria and Qatar will have a capital of USD 500 M. All of the money is being provided by the Qatar Investment Authority. The funds will be invested in Bulgarian agriculture, real estate,
03/04/2011
UN warns that food shortages is fueling unrest in North Africa and t...
Since 1990, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation has been following the global cost of a basket of food staples and calculates it has reached an all-time high.
There are a number of reasons behind the tightening food supply.
Firstly, rising oil prices are making it more expensive to process and transport food, and petroleum by-products are also used to make fertiliser and pesti
03/03/2011
Food prices shock...the latest news and analysis
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO) said that unrest in North Africa and the Middle East was behind the sharp rise in the price of wheat and cooking oil and increase in food hoarding by governments hoarding food.
If crude oil, which is a key cost for farmers and shipping companies moving commodities around the world, continues to climb prices will increase yet higher,
02/21/2011
Flooding costs S.Africa farming $392 mln -industry
* Heavy rains damage crops, infrastructure
* Farmers hopeful govt will provide financial help
SOMERSET WEST, South Africa, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Floods in South Africa have cost the farming sector about 2.8 billion rand ($392 million) in damages, and farmers are hoping for a government bailout, an industry official said on Monday.
Heavy rains, mainly in January, killed more than 10
02/17/2011
German interest in Bulgarian farmland
German companies are interested in purchasing Bulgarian agricultural products, said Svetoslav Simeonov, CEO of the Bulgarian Agriculture Fund. On Friday, Simeonov participated in a Bulgarian-German business meeting during the international public exhibition for food, agriculture and gardening industry, Greek Week, in Berlin. The Vice-president of the German retailer "Metro", Michael Widm
02/15/2011
Corn Set for Record on Surging Demand in 2011
Corn reached an all-time high of $7.9925 a bushel in June 2008 and would need to rise more than 13 percent from yesterday’s close to exceed that level.
Corn may surge to a record in the first half and be the best-performing agricultural commodity as increased government purchases help to “inflame” the market, according to Agrocorp International Pte.
“Corn
02/10/2011
Egypt has escalated the food crisis and shifted global economic poli...
Food prices are headed back to the historic peaks they hit in 2007-2008.
This round of the food crisis—which started off as pretty much a replay of the 2007-2008 crisis—has moved to a new level of seriousness. Governments have been rocked by protests that are about a whole lot more than the price of supply of bread. But at the same time governments can see that soaring
02/03/2011
Global food prices rise to new highs, not expected to fall in coming...
Food prices around the world surged to a new historic peak in January, for the seventh consecutive month, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today, adding that the prices are not likely to decline in the months ahead.
According to the FAO, its latest Food Price Index, a commodity basket that tracks monthly changes in global food prices, averaged 231 points
01/31/2011
Agricultural land in Bulgaria among the cheapest in Europe
According to a ranking of consultancy company Savills based on Eurostat data and various other sources for the period 2007-2009 prices of agricultural land in Bulgaria rank third among the lowest in the EU.
To compare, in Ireland, which has the highest land prices in the ranking, agricultural land prices in 2008 were over 40,000 euro per hectare.
Statistics from 2000 on shows that prices in Roma
01/21/2011
Buy food, China Is hungry
Chinese demand, the weather and political risks will lead to a very volatile year for soft commodities' prices, analysts at Swiss bank Sarasin wrote in a research note Wednesday.
“Global prices of agricultural commodities are picking up again. This leads to higher foodstuff prices, which in December passed their zenith of 2008, according to data compiled by the United Nat
01/19/2011
Large agri business invests in Bulgaria
One of the biggest American companies in the agricultural sector - CHS buys Agri Point, expands East Europe business
CHS Inc. will expand its business in Eastern Europe through an acquisition, the agribusiness company said Tuesday.
By buying Agri Point Ltd., CHS said it will bolster its operations in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Serbia by adding 1.5 million to 2 million metric tons of
01/13/2011
World moves closer to food price shock
The world has moved a step closer to a food price shock after the US government surprised traders by cutting stock forecasts for key crops, sending corn and soyabean prices to their highest level in 30 months.
The price jump comes after the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation warned last week that the world could see repetition of the 2008 food crisis if prices rose further. The trend
01/11/2011
Bulgarian real estate experts advice: invest in farmland
Agricultural land will be one of the most successful investment options in 2011, Bulgarian real estate experts say. The price of all land grades hit the bottom, but the demand remains high – from domestic and foreign manufacturers, investment funds, speculators, even the World Bank.
Due to the expectations for economical growth, lower interest rates and inflation, the interest in st
01/07/2011
Soaring demand for food pushing up prices
I hope you're not hungry.
According the United Nations, world food prices hit a record high last month, exceeding the riot-inciting values we saw in 2008. Even worse, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) says food prices may move even higher than its most-recent record index reading of 214.7.
"There is still, unfortunately, the potential for grain prices to strengthen on the bac
01/06/2011
World food prices rose to a record
The most substantial increase was on meat and sugar prices, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says
World food prices rose to a record in December on higher sugar and meat costs, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said.
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01/05/2011
US farmland soaring in value
No one knows about farmland trends better than farmers. And farmers are reaping one heck of a bounty these days…
There’s no need for Willie Nelson to raise funds anymore, unlike the dark days of the 1980s when Farm Aid held concerts to raise funds to alleviate the desperate plight faced by American farmers.
The reality is … farm income is booming.
You see, the average farm
01/04/2011
Romanian Firms Lured by Bulgaria's Business Climate
Romanian companies that registered in Bulgaria have been attracted by the latter's business climate, according to Valentin Radomirski, Bulgarian Ambassador to Romania.
"Predictability, business-friendly environment, low tax rates are elements that attract companies. For the last two months only, three credit agencies consistently affirmed the positive credit rating of Bulgaria and this is
12/21/2010
Bulgaria to receive farm subsidies equal to old EU member states
Bulgaria will defend its positions and will insist on making the subsidies equal for the old and for the new member states before the deadline which is already defined – 2016. Bulgaria insisted on this happening in 2014, which coincides with the new period of common agricultural policy, which at the moment represents half of the budget of the EU.
Bulgaria also insisted on falling off the
12/21/2010
Bulgaria Moves into Top 30 Offshore Locations - Gartner
Bulgaria is one of eight new countries that have made their way into the top 30 destinations for globally sourced activities for the period 2010-2011, all of which are in emerging markets, according to a Gartner report.
Five of the new entrants made their debut in the top thirty list for the first time (Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Colombia, Mauritius and Peru), along with three re-entrants (Panama, S
06/11/2010
Price of US farmland rising
Prices are high for the world’s best farmland, passing $7,000 an acre in Nebraska and Iowa recently, because of strong world food demand over the next 40 years, an agricultural economist said here Tuesday.
In fact, said J.B. Penn, chief economist for farm equipment maker Deere & Co., for the first time the world’s ability to produce is about to be overtaken by
05/08/2010
Investing in Ukrainian farmland looking a good option
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 be a winner.
Soft commodities are widely believed to be the investment of the future and a must-hav
05/03/2010
Time to invest in Land
Time to invest in Land
Uncertainty surrounds many investment s at the present time. Such as stock markets, which have gone high and now look ready for a fall. Or property investment in places such as the UK, where the grey clouds of rising interest rates and huge government debt are looming overhead.
But one type of investment looks a much
03/03/2010
Investment in Ukrainian farmland growing
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.
Farmland in Ukraine is one of the world’s most fertile and has t
02/24/2010
Ukraine Land Investment’s Perfect Balance
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 products”. “Ukraine agricultural land stands
02/23/2010
Agricultural investment
Picture of
Bulgarian farming district of Dobrudzha, near North Bulgarian coast.
Investments in agriculture, which is consistently steady annual returns give an average of 10% to 15% annually over the past decade, as mankind consumes more corn than we produce for seven of the last eight years. Institutional investors such as Jim Rogers a
06/04/2009
Korea to Encourage Companies to Farm Abroad to Ensure Supplies
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 long-term, so we will support private companies doing the
03/30/2009
Farmers hit hard by falling land prices
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 peak.
Not su
03/13/2009
Bulgarian Farmers get BGN 577 million in direct payments
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 subsidised before the start of the spring sowing to meet costs. After numerous protests by
03/09/2009
A long term Bull market in grains
A bull market in grains
"I remain a devoted long-term soft commodities bull; the grains and other soft agricultural commodities remain one of the most long-term compelling investment trends of our lifetime," says Eric Roseman.
"The grains and other soft agricultural commodities remain
11/27/2008
Foreign countries scramble for agricultural land in quest for food
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
Photo by: TRACEY SHELTON
Cambodia looks set to capitalise on its vast swaths of underused farmland.
ARAB and Asian countries are in talks with the Cambodian government to access large tracts
11/17/2008
Fragmented Bulgarian land lowers value
A conference debated the future of the country’s agricultural lands
Photo: Krassimir Yuskesseliev
Agrarian reform in Bulgaria is going in the wrong direction. But if the corporative model of working the land were implemented, then agricultural business could attract more foreign investment and boost the country’s economy in the wake of the weakened tourism and constru
008/01/2008
Oil-rich Persian Gulf states are making a headlong rush for farmland.
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 states have made
16/08/2006
Schroders Plans to Raise $480 Million for Global Farmland Fund
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 create a 250 million-pound ($480 million) fund to invest in farmland around the globe, as price
08/17/2008
British farmers rolling in it
Why some British farmers are rolling in it
Some British farmers are rolling in it after years of grinding debt, suicide and depression. Rising food prices, soaring global demand and the market for organic home-grown produce are rewarding their endeavours — but are they simply making hay while the sun shines?
This afternoon, Peter Kendall will take delivery of a new tractor. An ar
08/13/2008
Bulgaria record grain harvest
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 to import quali
07/21/2008
Agricultural land most attractive property in Bulgaria, consultancy ...
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.
Holiday resorts and big Bulgarian cities do not seem such an attractive investment opportunity for foreign property i
07/17/2009
Farm land untouched by housing slump as investors see a haven
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 per cent, while over the course of 2007 average
07/07/2008
From building plots back to farmland
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 $10,000 an acre for the land to build houses, the same price now being commanded for irrigated farmland, Vliek said, in today's surging farm market. Land in rural southwestern Michigan i
06/30/2008
Ukrainian grain exports rise
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 maize will remain the main exported grain crops from Ukraine. At that, Minister did
06/25/2008
Investment Fund to Achieve Maximum Farming Effectiveness in Bulgaria
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 mainly in Northern Bulgaria.
The Fund had
06/21/2008
Investing in agriculture: Food price rises creat fields of gold
Investing in agriculture: Food price rises create fields of gold
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 year to the end of May, with some items seeing incr
06/20/2008
Crop yields could be tripled in Ukraine
Russian land boom could avert global famine
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.
06/21/2008
How to profit from the global agriculture boom
How to Profit from the Global
Agriculture Boom
"You won't find anything like this anywhere else in the world," said my guide.
We pulled off the highway and started down the dirt road toward Protein City. My guide pointed to an empty field on our right. Next year, this field will be a neighborhood with 4,000 houses, he said.
He pointed to another development on the
06/24/2008
Agribusiness eyes potential in Ukraine's fertile fields
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.
"If all of Ukraine's farms could produce the yields we are getting, this country could play a big role in feeding the world and establish itself as
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