Karuturi to outsource Ethiopian land to Indian farmers

This's just the beginning, our developmental democracy leaders were telling us they leased plots of land almost a size of Belgium in Gambella, South, Oromiya at dirt-price to Indians and others for 99yrs, in order to transfer technology, be food-self sufficient and above all create jobs to the locals who're evicted from the land they have lived on for generations. These poor and voiceless people have no rights whatsoever to reclaim their land or the rivers to their livestock because it was sold with 2pages contract to the latest bidder. Time will tell what's gonna happen when the Indians bring their fellow citizens to farm on the land they claimed ''to develop'' by employing locals. Such kind of shady behind the scene deal which was made by the two parties without consulting The locals will bring tremendous social, ecological, environmental and political chaos for a long time and the price the locals have to pay is huge. This is nothing but outright greed at the expense of poor Ethiopians who're sold out by the very government which is supposed to ''represent'' and ''safeguard'' their rights.

Karuturi to outsource Ethiopian land to Indian farmers: FarmLandGrab



Raghuvir Badrinath/Bangalore (Business Standard, 12 Oct, 2011)Karuturi Global, the city-based
publicly-held floriculture major and one of the world's largest exporter of
roses which is aggressively rolling out an agriculture business venture in
Ethiopia, is looking at outsourcing 20,000 hectares of farm land in the African
nation to Indian farmers on a revenue-sharing