JUST a month into the new year, and Australian agriculture has once again shown it is being increasingly seen as important part of an investment portfolio for institutional investors and families alike.
As we reported earlier, Chinese textile firm, Zhejiang Sunrise Garment Group has paid around $120 million for one of Australia’s largest irrigated farming operations, Gundaline, near Carrathool in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation area of southern New South Wales.
And Victorian-based Excel Farms, backed by Canadian investment firm Fiera Comox, secured Western Australia mixed-farming…