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Japanese company to build fishmeal plant in Russia
28.07.2016 09:11:07
Japanese company Mitsui is planning to build a fishmeal production plant on the Sakhalin Island in the far east part of Russia. Negotiations on this project are in the final stage, according to Hiroshi Meguro, CEO of Mitsui & Co Moscow. The preliminary agreement on the project has been signed during a working meeting with the head of the Federal Agency for Fisheries Ilya Shestakov, reported Russian media SoyaNews.
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28.07.2016 09:10:08
Aquaculture feed market expected to hit $123bn by 2019
More...SPECIAL REPORT: Insects as a Sustainable Protein Source
28.06.2016 11:31:10
In 2013 the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization stressed that a new approach to food production was crucial if we are to avoid future shortages. Their suggestion was edible insects. It is their sustainability credentials that has lead the UN to highlight insects as the potential future of food, requiring minimal resources to farm and producing substantially less waste than conventional livestock.
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Using trees as a soy alternative for salmon feed
28.06.2016 11:23:11
At the last Global Forum for innovations in agriculture (GFIA) which took place in Abu Dhabi, Professor Margareth Øverland presented her innovative research focused on partially replacing fish meal in the diets of farmed fish by a yeast created from coniferous trees.
More...Russian farmers will expand soybean area
28.06.2016 11:20:35
In April soybean exports from Russia reached 21.8 KMT against 19.6 KMT in April 2015 and 72.9 KMT in March 2016. The reduction of April's shipments did not affect the overall results of the season. Since the beginning of the current marketing year (September-April) Russia exported 370.5 KMT of soybean against 229.6 KMT during the same period last season. No doubt the current marketing year will set a new record. Almost all soybeans were supplied to Chinese market.
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‘Using more alternative proteins in food'
14.06.2016 19:39:40
The expected growth of the world population to more than 9 billion people in 2050 and an increasing demand for highly nutritional foods will lead to an enormous pressure on the future food production system. The protein supply is in this respect most critical, both for human consumption and for animal feed. Plant proteins are considered more sustainable and more cost-effective than animal proteins. Partly replacing animal protein in existing products with new plant protein ingredients or developing new plant protein-based products is an effective approach in making more protein available for a larger part of the world population. In addition to the use of proteins directly from crops, large organic side and waste streams are available for the extraction of proteins, also in the food-chain.
More...Feed sector bodies slam EC over five-month GM approval delay
13.06.2016 10:34:10
Europe's feed sector organisations have urged the European Commission (EC) to give its approval for three GM soya bean products, complaining bitterly that the items have been in the EU "pending" tray since January this year, despite being accepted by the European Food Safety Authority (efsa) in 2015.
More...Soybeans rally on Argentine rain, wheat hits 6-week top
13.06.2016 10:32:46
U.S. soybeans gained 1.7 percent on Monday, underpinned by declining supplies from Argentina, while wheat climbed to a six-week high as heavy rains threatened crop prospects in Europe.
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Heavy rains damage French sunflower crops
09.06.2016 11:45:40
The sunflower area in France, the EU's fourth biggest producer of sunflowers, will likely be significantly smaller than expected. Consequently, the EU Commission could reduce its previously positive area forecast to project negative figures for 2016.
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Methane + yeast = fish food?
02.06.2016 09:51:35
Presenting recently at GOAL conference, in Vancouver British Columbia, President and CEO of Calysta Inc, Dr. Alan Shaw, stated that "the world will require more food production in the next 50 years than in all human history". And he believes his California company and FeedKind Protein - a non-animal based, naturally sourced protein this company produces - has a role to play in increasing sustainable food production.
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