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Chilean mussel sales will double in Asia

The world's largest mussel company, Chilean St-Andrew-Chiloère, plans to increase its annual production of mussels by 56 percent to 25,000 tonnes in the next three years.

At present the company's annual output of 16,000 tons of mussels, 95-97% of frozen products, mainly exported to Europe and the United States.But the Asian market, especially in Japan and China, the market demand continues to rise, while India and Africa, the market demand has increased.The company's sales of this year or will double in Aisa.

Current prices of mussels isUS $ 3.3 per kilogram in the range 100-200 and US $ 3 per kilo at the range 200-300, and whole shell mussels is US $ 2.3 per kilogram.

Source: http://www.fishfirst.cn/article-85871-1.html

The subsidies of planting, breeding, processing in 2017

Recently, according to the spirit of the national conference on comprehensive agricultural development and the "National Agricultural Development Fund and project management approach" provides that the Ministry of Finance issued a "2017 on the national agricultural comprehensive development of industrial development projects to declare the work of the notice. 2017 planting, breeding, processing subsidies are the number?

      4 types of 31 projects can declare subsidies

1. Modern agricultural park pilot declaration project

Accepted by: Ministry of Agriculture;

The amount of subsidy to apply: provincial 1000-2000 million, national 1-2 billion;

Application for reporting time: June.

2. One county and one special industry development pilot project

Accepted by: Ministry of Finance;

Support: agricultural infrastructure, seed breeding, agricultural pollution control, comprehensive utilization of waste and social service system and other public welfare projects, as well as new products and technologies to promote the use of deep processing of agricultural products.

Amount of subsidy: 300 ~ 5 million yuan;

Application for reporting time: October.

3. Leading enterprises to promote industrial development pilot projects

Accepted by: Ministry of Finance;

Support: agricultural infrastructure, seed breeding, agricultural pollution control, comprehensive utilization of waste and social service system and other public welfare projects, as well as new products and technologies to promote the use of deep processing of agricultural products.

Application for the amount of subsidies: 500 to 800 million; application for reporting time: October.

4. One or two three industrial integration pilot project

Subsidy amount: 30% of the total investment;

Reporting time: May.

5. Small and medium-sized enterprise technology innovation fund Modern agriculture field project

The amount of subsidies: 800,000 yuan;

Reporting time: 6 ~ July.

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China's selenium-rich agricultural capital Guigang City of Beijing to the new situation

January 18, 2017, Guigang City. The Vice Mayor of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region-Wei Zhaohui with the city's Development and Reform Commission, Bureau of Commerce, Bureau of Agriculture and other departments and her party came to Beijing to visit the new agricultural products wholesale market and to discuss cooperation projects.

Guiganghas unique geographical advantages, convenient traffic conditions, unique resources; soil-rich selenium resources make Guigang City, "China's selenium-rich agricultural capital," said. At present the city has a total of 62 selenium-rich agricultural production base, the total area of 45,610 acres, covering rice, tea, vegetables, Chinese herbal medicines, fruits and other competitive industries.

Beijing Xinfadi agricultural products wholesale market was established in 16thMay , 1988, after 28 years of development, has now developed into the world's largest agricultural products wholesale market, the annual turnover of 70 billion yuan breakthrough, the average daily turnover of 200 million yuan, Market influence to cover all parts of the country.

Source: http://www.farmer.com.cn/xwpd/dfny/201701/t20170120_1270871.htm

Fung Cheung shares acquired the "best achievement’ by the United States issued. Chinese broiler breeding refresh the global record

China broiler industry ushered in the most exciting news of the New Year - January 17, accounting for 50% of the global share of broiler breed industry, the United States Kebao company, for the new Fengxiang Group's Fengxiang shares awarded the " Best breed of chickens. " This is the first time in the history of Chinese enterprises to obtain this award. The achievement is not only means that the breeding results of Fengxiang shares have set a record of breeding in the world over the same period, which means that the breeding technology has reached the highest level of breeder breeding in the world. This achievement has been recognized as one of the signs that China has changed from "traditional big country" to "traditional power country".

It is reported that food is the main business of Xinfengxiang Group. It is the leading enterprise in chicken production and processing in China. It owns the most complete industrial chain and the largest export and processing channel of food production and processing. To the table, "the whole industry chain of food safety control system. Processing products are exported to the EU, Japan, Malaysia, the Middle East more than 20 countries and regions, including KFC, McDonald's, Wal-Mart, Carrefour and other major strategic suppliers. XinFengxiang Group's is excellent shape, love to pull, and other well-known raw materials supplier.

http://www.boyar.cn/article/2017/01/17/702512.shtml

China Sinochem Corporation announced strategic cooperation with China Grain Reserve Corporation

In mid-January 2017, Sinochem Corporation (hereinafter referred to as "Sinochem") announced that it had signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the China Grain Reserve Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the "Grain Reserve") in Beijing to establish a long-term stability strategy Partnership, policy-based purchasing and storage, rotation of grain reserves, modern agricultural services, and other aspects of extensive cooperation.

As a traditional energy and chemical enterprises, Sinochem Group under the leadership of NingGaoning strong agriculture.

Sinochem Group has always considered itself the sole operator of fertilizer, seeds, pesticides, agricultural inputs of the three central enterprises, and NingGaoning food grain carrier from the COFCO, COFCO has been done in the food downstream trade links wind and water.

Under the agreement, Sinochem Corporation will provide Sinopec Modern Agriculture Co., Ltd. with the services of order planting, full custody and technical custody for the grain storage policy reserve, reserve rotation grain, state-owned farm transformation and development, etc. Meanwhile, Facilities, grain and oil sales and personnel training in areas such as cooperation, together for the national food security and agricultural modernization to play a central role in coordinating the leadership of the central enterprises.

All along, the policy purchasing and storage, reserve rotation of grain are the profitability of major companies, "contested." If Sinochem can participate in the storage of grain storage business, will become the new Nuggets point of its business. It is understood that each year, in addition to the central grain storage company to take full advantage of direct storage of central grain reserves, but also commissioned a part of the local grain storage and social storage and storage of central grain reserves.

http://www.feedtrade.com.cn/news/enterprise/2017-01-16/2027903.html

Safer Salmonella control in poultry feed

Salmonella in feed is one of the key causes of colonisation in poultry. Enterobacteriaceae such as Salmonella can be present in the entire feed production process, from the raw materials all the way through to the final feed. Salmonella may then be passed on to consumers. Because of this, feed millers and integrators aiming to ensure high feed quality standards, need to demonstrate they have an effective Salmonella control program.

Controlling Salmonella at the beginning of the chain, in raw materials and feed, reduces prevalence from the very start. The practical example in this article shows how a Salmonella audit can support feed millers to take the most appropriate steps. It also demonstrates how a strict control program, involving a combination of feed additives, regular expert checks and interventions, leads to effective results without any need for aggressive treatments such as the use of formaldehyde.

A safe solution for high-calcium feeds

A Dutch feed miller was looking into alternatives to formaldehyde in order to control Enterobacteriaceae in its feed for layers (including eggs for vaccine production) and breeders. These types of feed are not pelletised and contain a relatively large amount of calcium. The combination of these characteristics makes it difficult to decontaminate the feed effectively.

Figure 1 - Effect of turning during different days of incubation on percentage fertile hatchability, early dead embryos (E0-E6), late dead embryos (E18-E21+pipped), and malpositioned II embryos.

A high calcium level neutralises many acids used and without pelletising the feed is not heated, both of which prevent decontamination. This was why the feed miller employed formaldehyde, which is an aggressive decontamination product. As there are safety concerns with the use of this product, this feed miller wanted to try using a gentler method based on organic acids. The feed mill had set the quality standard at a level of less than 10³ cfuEnterobacteriaceae per gram of feed. In addition, they wished to have an automatic dosing system to add the feed additives to the feed.

Initial assessment

Firstly, feed samples were taken for a dose-response study in order to find the optimum dosage level to reach the quality goal in the most economical way. The baseline results showed that the Enterobacteriaceae level was very high in both the untreated and the formaldehyde-treated samples. Only a very high dosage of the organic acids could reduce this to the desired level (Figure 1). A decision was taken to investigate the production system more thoroughly to solve the problem.

A full Salmonella audit was performed in the entire production system. Samples were taken in several places, including from spots where dust normally collects, like sieves. Scrapings from the inside of machines were also taken, since these locations are at risk of Enterobacteriaceae contamination. Finally, samples of the raw materials were taken to measure their microbial quality, both before and after grinding. The results revealed that the inside of the grinder was high in Enterobacteriaceae, with levels of up to 24,000 cfu/g. However, the ground wheat used for the feed had even higher levels, up to 110,000 cfu/g. These findings showed that the high Enterobacteriaceae level in the feed was mainly due to the contamination of the wheat after grinding.

Integrated approach

Based on these findings, a new plan to manage the Enterobacteriaceae level was proposed. Since there were multiple sources of contamination, an integrated approach was applied in which feed additives with specific modes of action were used to treat specific areas. As shown in figure 2, the raw material, left-overs in the system and the final feed were treated.

Figure 2 - Advantage for 96 versus 24 turns daily on fertile hatchability of young (34 and 39-week-old) and old (59 and 61-week-old) flock eggs.

The complete feed safety programme used to prevent the high Enterobacteriaceae counts for this feed mill included; Adding a feed additive (SelkoFysal liquid) based on organic acids to high-risk raw materials (whole grains) at 0.4% inclusion, spraying the grinder once a week with another feed additive (SelkoFysal SP) using a powder duster, in order to reduce the bacterial level in the feed left-overs and adding a third feed additive (SelkoFysal Feed) to the feed in the mixer at 0.5% inclusion rate, to prevent later contamination with Enterobacteriaceae.

The high level of active ingredients in the used additives assured efficacy despite of the high buffer capacity of the feed, giving the organic acids combination in the formula the chance to reduce the level of Enterobacteriaceae. This combined solution proved to be more cost-effective due to the lower inclusion rate necessary and this still helped the feed miller to reach the goal of less than 10³ CFU Enterobacteriaceae without the use of formaldehyde.

The key to such a successful and safe Enterobacteriaceae (including Salmonella) control programme involves finding out where the risks are located and having the expertise and correct equipment to apply the most effective products in the right places. The best results can be achieved when dosage advice is based on studies with the raw materials used on site, because bacterial load and raw material conditions differ from place to place. By testing the effects of several different dosage levels, it is possible to define the most economical dosage for optimal results.

By Danielle Smeitink, Trouw Nutrition

Source: http://www.worldpoultry.net/Health/

Balance between meat imports and domestic products

Beef on sale inside a supermarket in HàNội. Prices of domestic meat products are becoming cheaper to better compete with imported meat products. Photo dantri.com.vn

Meat product imports into the Vietnamese market have long been common practice done in accordance with world regulations. However, imports could affect domestic prices and market stability if not taken under full control, said Hoàng Thanh Vân, Director of the Department of Livestock (DoL), Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) yesterday.

To gain better quality control over imported products and to stabilise the domestic market, relevant management agencies must improve the technical barriers imposed on meat products upon entering the Việt Nam, Vân said.

Simultaneously, the national meat and livestock industry must advance technologically to reduce costs and increase product quality.

Vân also noted that there are businesses in the South East region of Việt Nam currently producing livestock, meat and poultry products at relatively low prices.

In particular, white chicken is currently priced at VNĐ20,000 (US$0.9) per kilogramme, but the DoL had been making efforts to reduce it to VNĐ19,000 ($0.85) per kilogramme. This would make the Vietnamese price for chicken even with the US price. Việt Nam has a relative advantage in this area, and a lower price would mean better competitiveness on the world market.

The domestic price of pork has been moving between VNĐ38,000 and VNĐ40,000 ($1.7 to $1.8) per kilogramme. However, thanks to the use of vertical integration chain, the price has been reduced to VNĐ35,000 to VNĐ36,000 ($1.57 to $1.62) per kilogramme.

In the near future, the DoL expects to construct better vertical chains in order to reduce pork price down to near VNĐ30,000 ($1.35) per kilogramme. This shift would greatly benefit both Vietnamese farmers and consumers and allow domestic products to compete with imported ones.

By the end of 2016, total imported amount of chicken products in Việt Nam will amount to around 30,000 to 40,000 tonnes, imported beef 90,000 tonnes, imported pork 100,000 tonnes. Compared to the total domestic product of 6 to 7 million tonne, total imported value would not be considered significant. —VNS

Source:  http://vietnamnews.vn/economy/348416/

The top ten leading feed companies and the top 30 feed companies in 2016

On 9thDecember, China Feed Industry Association, the Seventh Member Congress held in Beijing, the Standing Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the CPPCC National Committee, the former deputy head of the Central Rural Work Group and Office Director Chen Xiwen, Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Kang Attend the meeting.

The General Assembly elected Li De Fa, the Chinese Academy of Engineering as the president of the new director of the Association, in accordance with the provisions of the procedures adopted by the "China Feed Industry Association Sixth Council Report", considered and adopted the "China Feed Industry Association regulations ( Revised draft) "and" China Feed Industry Association Financial Report ".

Top 10 Leading Feed Enterprises in China

NEW HOPE GROUP

CP GROUP

DABEINONG GROUP

TONG WEI GROUP

ZHENG BANG GROUP

HARD GROUP

TSR GROUP

TWINS GROUP

WWLLHOPEAGRI-TECH JOINT STOCK CO.,LTD

TIE LI SHIGROUP

The top 30 feed companies

GUANGDONG EVERGREEN FEED INDUSTRY Co., Ltd.

AONONG GROUP

JIU DINGGROUP

ANYOU BIOTECHNOLOGY GROUP

 MUYANG Co., Ltd. 

TEQU GROUP

YANG XIANG GROUP

TIAN MA GROUP

COFCO

ZHENG CHANG GROUP

AHAANXISHIYANG GROUP

YUE TAI GROUP

LIYUAN GROUP

JIADA GROUP

VICAGROUP

HUA GANG GROUP

HIGHMADE GROUP

SHENZHEN JINXINNONG GROUP

GUSHIA&S GROUP

ALPHA FEED

YUNNAN XIERNAN

TIANKANG

TYCOON GROUP

TOP SUNSHINE GROUP

HEBEIXINGDA GROUP

BACKBONE GROUP

SANWANG GROUP

BOEN GROUP

WANSHIXING GROUP

CONE GROUP

Source： 中国粮食信息网