Agence France Presse: East Timor’s government is under fire over an agreement to turn more than a sixth of the country’s arable land over to a 100 million dollar foreign-funded ethanol project. The Fretilin opposition has branded as a "land giveaway" a memorandum of understanding between the agriculture minister and GTLeste Biotech for a 100,000 hectare (247,000 acre) sugar plantation and ethanol plant. The agreement with the little-known Indonesian company guarantees at least 100 million …
Jun 24th, 2008 by Administrator |
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