PE/VC "Farming"

Zhou Xiaoyun in the current domestic a-share market turmoil adjustment, overseas Europe and the United States market crisis worsened in the environment, investment in agriculture and other industries affected by the economic cycle is gradually being favored by private equity and venture capital funds (PE/VC) and other investors. Capital market has always been the vane of PE/VC.　　With the Flower Shun financial statistics show that as of October 17 this year, 2009 and 2010 two years of the share market, the cumulative rise of about 84.59%, the same period A shares rose about 50%, the agricultural sector this two-year trend has run to win the market. Organic farming is attracting the attention of venture capitalists who have gathered in High-tech fields.　　Ye, the founding partner of Tsing Capital, told the first financial daily that the clean technology industry, including organic agriculture, is becoming a hot spot for private equity, and that some of the potential future investment opportunities in some niche areas may outweigh the current fiery TMT (Digital New media) industry. According to the data of the Qing Ke Research Center, according to the investment situation in the past years, the investment cases that have been disclosed in China's agricultural sector have reached 114 from 2006 to the first half of 2011, of which 104 of the cases disclosed amount to a total investment amount of 1.76 billion U.S. dollars.　　2010, a new record of investment in the calendar year, the total disclosure of investment cases 47, investment amounted to 891 million U.S. dollars, only from the amount of investment, more than half the cumulative amount of the year. However, Panre, senior investment manager of the Middle East PE Shanghai Wanli, told our correspondent that there are good and bad agricultural investment, traditional agriculture growth is slow, on average only about 5% of the low gross margin. Private equity investing in this industry needs to look for new models. Enterprises only in the scale, specialization and industrial chain, such as horizontal and vertical breakthroughs, such as the use of organic agriculture and electronic commerce combined with innovative ways, so as to attract capital to stop. Share to: