THE increasing desire among investors to include agriculture-related stocks in their portfolio is one of the key reasons why the Australian Securities Exchange has launched an agribusiness index this week.
The ASX, in partnership with S&P Dow Jones Indices, launched a broad-based Agribusiness Index including 25 larger listed companies whose principal business activity is in the primary production of agricultural products or in the production of commodities used as inputs into primary production.
The index tracks the performance of agribusiness companies listed on the ASX, providing a…
