Omnivore Partners, the Indian venture capital firm focusing on agtech, has invested into Mitra, a machinery company. The firm's Fund I is now 50 percent deployed.
The US firm's buyout and credit arms have together issued a second lien loan to the Greek yoghurt-maker.
The venture capital and private equity firms invested $7.5m each into BioConsortia, a technology company that has developed a system to improve crop productivity.
The acquisition of this north-western Tasmanian plantation by July will take New Forests’ total estate up to half a million hectares.
Freshly piled cut trees
The UK-based forestry and wind farm asset manager is aiming to raise £25m and says the fund is getting interest from small institutional investors.
The livestock farm management company is set to invest into two local farms, alongside a range of high net worth individual investors.
Wheat farmland
The US-based asset management firm that handles the assets of the Kattegat Trust, a charitable trust, has bought a farm in Romania and is due to complete on a second.
Jacob Robbins, the former managing director of global sweeteners at Coca Cola, plans to establish projects across Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, predominantly in bioenergy crops.
Craigmore Farming Partnership, a New Zealand own-and-operate agri fund with a focus on dairy, is planning to hold a final close in June.
Agri Investor’s first drinks event went off with a bang as attendees discussed investing into Africa, the trials and tribulations of tilling the land and the debate between Australian and New Zealand dairy managers heated up.
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