Saudi Arabia's largest private agriculture company, Almarai, and U.S. agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland Co. are reportedly among companies eying Saudi Grains Organization's (SAGO) milling operations, the kingdom's sole supplier, according to an exclusive report by Reuters.
HRH King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has announced a $104 million donation on behalf of the Kingdom to Syria in the form of food aid, following announcements last week of a shortfall.
SUSTG President Richard Wilson spoke with Saudi entrepreneur, Walid Abdulwahab, a recent graduate of the University of Southern California and Founder and CEO of Desert Farms, a successful organic camel milk company in the United States.
Saudi Arabia’s state grain buyer, the Saudi Arabian Grains Organization (SAGO), said on Thursday it would start accepting applications for qualification of potential investors interested in the sale of its four mills on Aug. 26 as the push toward privatization continues.
Over the last two-and-a-half decades, a series of NASA’s Landsat satellites have captured these pictures of the growing agriculture industry in the northern reaches of the Syrian Desert in Saudi Arabia, not far from Jordan.
