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Opportunites for social investment presented by Avantage Ventures include:

Organic Cotton Conversion

Enterprise: Shanxi Pohan Farmers Association, Shanxi province, China

Scope: Founded by Zheng Bing in 1998, with a membership of 3,800 farmers from 35 villages

Business: microfinance, agriculture retail chain stores, organic farming, farmers' school, women's handicraft co-operative, green family group

Proposed transaction: 3.5 million yuan (HK$4.07 million) is sought to fund organic certified cotton and the building of a ginning factory and an oil-seed-pressing factory. Investors are offered up to a 49 per cent stake in the new joint venture

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