date:Jun 26, 2013
mland investment at a time when Canberra is seeking to boost its agricultural output to become the food bowl of Asia.
China is encouraging its firms to expand overseas to increase food security for its 1.3 billion people.
Chinese investors last year bought Australia's biggest cotton farm Cubbie Station and China's Shanghai Zhongfu Group has approval to invest around A$700 million to build a sugar industry in northwest Australia.
The Australian Senate inquiry was set up after farmers complaine