well you said it yourself helena fifty seven billion dollars that s definitely a big deal and one that will create the largest integrated seeds and pesticides company in the world cornering about a quarter of the world s seeds and pesticides market now the scale of this deal is perhaps only rivaled by the level of resistance that it has met all over the world from n.g.o.s and farming unions they ve called this the merger from hell and critics have warren commission nervous tiger she risks creating the facebook of farming and by that they just don t mean a company big company that s under a lot of public scrutiny it s because buyer also has a wealth of digital farming data that allows it to tell farmers what to plant when to plant it when to kill it and when to fertilize so obviously this is a lot of power to concentrate in the hands of a single entity that goes way beyond market share. and still has you conditions as you mentioned and that us regulator approval as well how high are the
rebuilding iraq will cost eighty eight point two billion dollars after years of civil war and decades of under investment that s according to the planning ministry complicating matters is the fact that the country is effectively under two governments there s the autonomous kurdistan region in the north with around forty five billion barrels of oil reserves the rest of iraq has at least one hundred fifty billion barrels. but it s difficult to get reliable data from a country like iraq which is plagued by political instability but what s clear is just how dependent the country is on oil. it s estimated to account for around ninety two percent of overall state revenues. that some fifty seven billion out of sixty eight billion u.s. dollars. the iraqi government is currently looking for investors for refineries pipelines and production facilities at its manned you can all field one of the country s largest the government hopes to double output and
effectively under two governments there s the autonomous kurdistan region in the north with around forty five billion barrels of oil reserves the rest of iraq has at least one hundred fifty billion barrels. but it s difficult to get reliable data from a country like iraq which is plagued by political instability but what s clear is just how dependent the country is on oil it s estimated to account for around ninety two percent of overall state revenues. that some fifty seven billion out of sixty eight billion u.s. dollars. the iraqi government is currently looking for investors for refineries pipelines and production facilities at its manned you can all field one of the country s largest the government hopes to double output and the chinese led consortium could be the favorite to take over the field. state owned petro china is already the largest foreign investor in iraq and it could work
new silk road why china is sinking two point five billion dollars into the polls in georgia and how local companies there are trying to cash in on the new trade route on their doorstep. this is e w business i m sure how the office in berlin welcome china and pakistan will look at extending their fifty seven billion dollars china pakistan economic corridor to afghanistan as a part of china s ambitious bells and road plan linking china with asia europe and beyond china is trying to position itself as a helpful party to promote talks between pakistan and afghanistan both uneasy neighbors ever since pakistan s independence in one thousand forty seven that s what chinese foreign minister one year had to say on tuesday. china and pakistan are willing to look at including afghanistan other bases of of when when neutrally beneficial principles discussing appropriate means to extend
oil reserves the rest of iraq has at least one hundred fifty billion barrels. but it s difficult to get reliable data from a country like iraq which is plagued by political instability but what s clear is just how dependent the country is on oil. it s estimated to account for around ninety two percent of overall state revenues. that some fifty seven billion out of sixty eight billion u.s. dollars. directly government is currently looking for investors for refineries pipelines and production facilities at its mind you can all field one of the country s largest the government hopes to double output and the chinese led consortium could be the favorite to take over the field. state owned petro china is already the largest foreign investor in iraq and it could work with us chevron and francis to town to exploit the field other big players include