{"id":8531,"date":"2008-09-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"qatar-and-vietnam-set-up-agriculture-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/qatar-and-vietnam-set-up-agriculture-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Qatar and Vietnam set up agriculture fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters Dubai &#8211; Gas exporter Qatar and Vietnam have set up a $1 billion fund (56 million pounds) to invest in sectors including agriculture, a Qatar-based newspaper reported on Tuesday.       <\/p>\n<p>Qatari sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority QIA.L, will provide 90 percent of the fund&#8217;s equity, Gulf Times reported, citing Phung The Long, Vietnam&#8217;s Ambassador to Doha.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We have exchange ideas about setting up an animal farm for breeding cattle and lambs,&quot; The Long said. &quot;We like to have cooperation in this field. Qatar can provide the finance to grow food grains in our land and these can be exported to Qatar.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Gulf government funds, with windfall income from energy exports, have set up several joint funds, some designed to improve access to food supplies.<\/p>\n<p>The desert states in the world&#8217;s top oil-exporting region rely on imports of food &#8212; a factor that has stoked inflation to multi-decade highs this year as global commodity prices soared.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~4\/382151149\" \/><br \/>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/UKFundsNews\/~3\/382151149\/idUKARO33162120080903\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters Dubai &#8211; Gas exporter Qatar and Vietnam have set up a $1 billion fund (56 million pounds) to invest in sectors including agriculture, a Qatar-based newspaper reported on Tuesday. Qatari sovereign wealth fund, the Qatar Investment Authority QIA.L, will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[310,1425,2384,2483,117,1673,2484,2057,899],"class_list":["post-8531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-100-million","tag-base-metals","tag-dependencies","tag-international-petroleum","tag-investment-arm","tag-ipic","tag-jim-rogers","tag-lucrative-business","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}