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Deal #234 Version #45530

Lao PDR

Created at

2013-02-15

Last update

2013-08-01

Last full update

2022-08-17

Land area

Intended size

40 000 ha

Size under contract (leased or purchased area)

[2008, current] 10000.0 ha

Size in operation (production)

[2010, current] 8078.0 ha
[2009] 7323.0 ha

Comment on land area

by now the company is said to have more than 20000 ha (http://stoxplus.com/News/94141/1/197/hag-updated-data-on-rubber-sugarcane-projects-in-laos.stox ; http://nhandan.com.vn/en/business/item/985702-.html ; http://www.globalwitness.org/sites/default/files/library/Rubber_Barons_lores_0.pdf )

Intention of investment

[current] Other, Agriculture unspecified, Forestry unspecified

Comment on intention of investment

2 Airports are planned HAGL obtained the rights to explore for mineral potentials in Sekong and Attapeu provinces of southeastern Laos but there ar no clues for activity realized in this sector.

Nature of the deal

Comment on nature of the deal

received right to use land and to log timber

Negotiation status

[2008, current] Concluded (Oral Agreement)

Comment on negotiation status

there seem to have been concessions after 2008

Implementation status

[2008] Startup phase (no production)
[2010, current] In operation (production)

Contract farming

Yes

Comment on contract farming

The complex consists of a sugarcane material zone of 12,000 hectares to provide feedstock for a sugar mill with a daily crushing capacity of 7,000 tons of sugarcane. HAGL chairman Doan Nguyen Duc informed the group had grown more than 5,000 hectares of sugarcane in Attapeu and the rest would be grown by Laotian farmers.