Country Life: Where to invest in farmland
he opportunity that seems to be good to be true is farmland in the Ukraine, a country the fund describes as the ‘breadbasket of Europe'. But, following an IMF credit-crunch bailout, the mean-spirited might call it the basket case of Europe.

Country Life: Where to invest in farmland

November 07 at 15:51
Andrew Shirley writes:An increasing global population will need more food. That food has to come from somewhere, and that somewhere could well be Ukraine, where the price of top-quality arable soil is far lower than in other countries. Land values are projected to rise from an initial investment of $1, 500/hectare to $5, 000/hectare within five years. Read the story here.