"Profitable Agribusiness Investment"
Global demand growth
Food and agribusiness sectors enjoy significant annual growth in demand driven primarily by population growth, and the changing needs of society. Growth in food and agribusiness demand is expected to average 4% per annum over the next 25 years. Sector staples like beef, wheat, sugar, dairy and others will continue to grow as a function of world population growth, and the increasing affluence of new and emerging world markets.
Food security and safety
Governments, food companies and consumers the world over are increasingly concerned about long term sustainable supply of agricultural production and the safety and traceability of the food we eat. This will create attractive opportunities for large scale producers to capture markets on a long term basis.
Highly scalable
The food and agribusiness sectors have historically and traditionally been highly fragmented the world over. Moreover with many smaller producers, investment in scalable technologies and operations have lagged other sectors. Agribusiness operations are highly scalable, creating opportunities to generate efficiencies and attractive returns on capital.
Australian leadership and competitive advantage
Australian producers have a key advantage in food and agriculture because of expansive arable land availability, significant opportunity for scaling of businesses, relatively uniform government and regulatory regimes, and intellectual property and technology leadership in these sectors. There is significant potential for the export of Australian agribusiness technology, and the development of leading Australian agribusinesses into global operations.