Excellent opportunity in Niculitel area (Tulcea county) for:

•    Vineyard farm
•    Grapes collection
•    Wine storage (large capacity barrels)
•    Warehouse and office building

Niculitel is one of the most famous vineyards areas of Romania. Remember we are in Northern Dobrogea, very old land of mankind (Macin Mountains the oldest in the world). The landscape is beautiful and at every pace you meet nice people, old women dressed in popular costumes and tradition.

The varieties of grapes in this area are for white wines : Aligote, Riesling italian, Feteasca alba etc and for red wines: Feteasca neagra, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Pinot Noir etc.

Have a look at the large capacity barrels, they are in good condition and ready to be used.

Posted: 25 June 2010 under Agri solutions, Romania, Vineyards Romania.
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Companies have a “good opportunity to make money” building the infrastructure needed to feed a world population growing by some 100m people a year, a top executive at oilseeds giant Bunge has said.
While the need to raise crop production by 1.7bn tonnes in the first half of the century to feed the growing population had been appreciated, the problems of transporting and storing the extra had been largely ignored, Carl Hausmann said.
“The infrastructure needs of the world have been underinvested in over the last several year,” said Mr Hausmann, the former chief executive of Bunge in Europe and North America, now head of the agribusiness giant’s corporate affairs.
“But if farmers do not get more facilities to store, deliver crops, they cannot increase their production. Infrastructure is a linchpin of the entire agricultural system.”
Public vs private sectors
Developing the transport facilities and silos needed to meet this demand looked likely to come down to private companies, given the squeezes on public sector finances.
“Most will be done by the private sector,” he said. “Private companies will see this as an opportunity to invest and make money.”
Bunge was exploiting this opportunity through a $200m export facility it was building on the US west coast.
“Think how many more such projects we will need in the coming decade to cope with 1.7bn tonnes in [extra] production,” he added, saying that the world had “five-to-10 years” before the jump in volumes really hit home in terms of logistical needs.
Environmental battles
While infrastructure shortfalls were particularly acute in developing countries, with 70% of Africa’s farmers living more than a 30-minute walk from an all-weather road, they were common in Western countries too.
“Even in nations like the US, things are in bad shape,” Mr Hausmann said noting that Bunge’s new export silo is the country’s first for 25 years.
Companies would be “happy” to invest in new infrastructure “as long as the [government] policies are healthy”.
In many cases, this would mean finding ways to improve relations with lobbies, such as environmental groups, who were holding up the development of many facilties.
“Many investors are not ready to see [manager] in the crosshairs,” Mr Hausmann said.

Via: http://www.agrimoney.com/news/silos-and-transport-offer-good-scope-for-profits–1891.html

Posted: 24 June 2010 under Agri solutions, Agribusiness worldwide, Romania.
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Swiss-held Alimenta Group, the shareholder of Expur Urziceni - producer of vegetable oil brand Ulcom, which last year entered the biodiesel market, will sell all vegetable oil and biodiesel production divisions held via Expur Urziceni to French giant Sofiproteol, but will retain 13,000 hectares of farming land in Galati county.

“Agricultural operations, which belong to some of the Expur shareholders are not included in this sale. Agricultural operations involved around 13,000 hectares in the Calarasi area, close to the Danube, where rapeseed, sunflower, wheat, barley, and maize are grown,” said Richard Radag, president of Expur Urziceni, without, however, revealing the name of the corporate entity through which the Swiss own these plots.

Alimenta Group started negotiations with Sofiproteol for the sale of Expur Urziceni - the biggest biodiesel producer in Europe, with 5.5 billion euros in turnover, with the due diligence process being close to completion. Representatives of Alimenta and Sofiproteol, which will be advised both by Romanian and French law firms, did not reveal the value of the transaction. However, sources from the industry say the French could pay between 60 and 100 million euros for Expur, making it the biggest transaction on the local vegetable oil market.

Source: http://www.mirzon.eu/news/june-2010/17-june-2010-3.html

Posted: 17 June 2010 under Europe, Romania.
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