Cargill and Royal DSM in sweet joint venture
Cargill and Royal DSM have created a new joint venture called Avansya to produce zero-calorie sweeteners such as steviol glycosides Reb M and Reb D through fermentation instead…
Thailand targets more offseason corn
Thailand’s Cooperative Promotion Department is trying to get more farmers to grow corn as a second crop after rice to increase the supply of good…
Alltech opens new plant in Pune
Alltech has officially opened a new manufacturing plant in Pune, India, with a production capacity of 25,000 tons per year, making it Alltech’s largest organic trace…
China soybean imports down 10%
China’s soybean imports and soybean meal consumption are expected to fall to 85 million tonnes in 2018, a 10% decline from 94 million tonnes in…
Thai Food Group Plc to buy off-season corn
TFG plans to open corn procurement sites in Suphanburi and Prachinburi to buy off-season corn. The company currently operates three feed mills with total…
Global poultry production to rise
Global poultry output in 2018 is expected to hit 121.6 million tonnes, up 1.4% over last year due to expansion in the US, the EU,…
GFPT’s new slaughterhouse being built
GFPT’s new poultry processing facility worth 4 billion baht in Chonburi with 150,000 birds/day capacity is on track to begin operating by 2020. The…
Macau reports fatal case of bird flu
A 44-year-old Chinese driver from Hechi in Guangxi Zhuang has died after contracting Influenza A virus H5N6 subtype. It was the first reported human case of the disease since the…
Perstorp eyes new production bases
Perstorp plans to invest more than €14 million in new production units to ensure global availability of Perstorp feed and food products in Asia and the…
Kitchen waste blamed for African swine fever outbreak
China has found three new African swine fever cases on small pig farms in Shanxi, Hunan, and Yunnan provinces, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural…