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The UK private equity firm has hired Barclays Capital to advise on the growth capital injection.
RF Capital, an Australian family office, has purchased six poultry processing facilities across Australia.
A free trade agreement has been agreed between Australia and China. It will reduce tariffs on lamb, beef, horticulture and dairy products.
Positive noises are coming out of the free trade agreement negotiations between China and Australia as a separate live cattle deal was leaked over the weekend.
The regenerative agriculture fund manager attracted commitments from high net worth individuals.
A Canadian investor is still in due diligence although investors from Europe and the US stopped the process earlier this year.
The finance group predicts sustained high prices for live and slaughtered cattle across the world.
The Beijing Australia Agricultural Resource Cooperative Development Fund will invest across agricultural industries.
The private equity firm is again backing agribusiness in China with a view to improving food safety, having purchased a stake in Fujian Sunner, a vertically integrated chicken meat producer.
Mergers and acquisitions volumes in Africa's poultry sector are low, but there are parts that warrant a closer look and Uganda is one of them, according to John Strak, honorary professor in food economics at Nottingham University and an agribusiness consultant.