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Canada’s farm minister highlighted on Monday the global marketing reach of Swiss-based Glencore in the latest sign from Ottawa that it has little appetite for blocking the company’s proposed takeover of grain handler Viterra.
Canada is one of the few countries that can help meet growing global demand for food, which is set to increase by 50 to 70 per cent in coming decades, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz told reporters when asked to comment on the Glencore bid.
“It’s going to take trade at the global level to make that happen. Certainly companies like Glencore have different avenues of marketing than Viterra has,” he said on a conference call from South Korea .
Ritz said Viterra, the country’s biggest grain handler, itself has operations in several countries and is “not simply a Canadian company either.”
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