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The organizations highlighted their own efforts to enhance returns on private agricultural investments and predict a more prominent role for government-led investments in their outlook through 2026.

The global investment and advisory firm is helping select a sales manager for assets that remain within the listed timber fund after shareholders voted to wind the company down in June.

The deal comes one year after CITIC Agri Fund Management was established together with Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture and two other listed agricultural companies.

The firm co-led the round in biologicals start-up NewLeaf Symbiotics alongside Otter Capital, bringing capital raised by the company to nearly $50m.

The investment seeks to capitalize on what the company sees as an 'inflection point' in both commercial and personal use of hydroponic equipment.

While the drop is significant, production is expected to remain close to average levels in 2017-18 given that last year was a record-breaking season.

The Vietnam-focused private equity firm is selling its shares in Vietnamese crop chemicals company Loc Troi in a listing that will value the company at $200m.

The New York-headquartered agribusiness specialists are seeking between $300m and $400m for a vehicle targeting earlier-stage growth equity investments across agribusiness sectors.

The Enhanced Smallholder Protection Programme will look to encourage Zambia’s 61,000 smallholder farmers to transition from subsistence to market-oriented agriculture.

Inputs are likely to be the focus of agricultural investments from the Denver-based firm’s new vehicle.