Industrial enzymes market estimated to grow to US$6 billion

04 May 2012 - A new market research by MarketReseach.com estimates the global market for industrial enzymes to grow at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.1% to reach $6 billion by 2016. Read more >>

National Foods reopens stockfeed plant

30 Apr 2012 - Prices of stockfeeds are expected to decline in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe following the reopening of the National Foods plant in the city. Read more >>

World Bank support for East African aquaculture

25 Apr 2012 - The World Bank has released Sh100 million (€915,000) to enhance productivity and competitiveness of fish farming in three East Africa countries. Read more >>

Namibia's state-of-the-art feed mill on track

16 Apr 2012 - Feedmaster’s new state-of-the-art feed mill for poultry and pig feeds in Namibia on track for October. It should increase the company’s annual production capacity. Read more >>

Maggots are the next protein in feed alternative

23 Mar 2012 - A British entrepreneur in South Africa believes that maggots, the larvae of the common house fly (Musca domestica), are a viable protein-rich alternative to make animal feed. Read more >>

ExtruAfrica 2012 to address extrusion as a food and feed processing instrument

09 Mar 2012 - An international conference and practical training seminar week on extrusion technology applied in food and feed manufacturing will be presented by the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing (CoE) of the North-West University’s (NWU) Potchefstroom Campus at the Protea Hotel Kruger Gate in Mpumalanga, South Africa from 31 July to 3 August 2012. Read more >>

Libya buys Ukraine feed wheat, barley, and Argentine soymeal

22 Feb 2012 - Libya's state grain buying agency is purchasing feed wheat, barley, soymeal, and has tenders out for the similar amounts of the same and milling wheat, Reuters reports. Read more >>

Extrusion workshop in South Africa

14 Feb 2012 - A practical introductory workshop on the basic principles, technology and job creation opportunities of extrusion technology in the manufacturing of food, feed and plastic products, will be presented by the Department of Trade and Industry’s (dti) Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing (CoE) at the North-West University (NWU) in Potchefstroom on the 7th of March 2012. Read more >>

Tunisia makes progress on feed testing laboratory

10 Feb 2012 - The US Grains Council and Ministry of Agriculture cooperative program to establish a Tunisian central laboratory for feed analysis is well underway, reported Cary Sifferath, USGC regional director. Read more >>

High corn price drives South African feed makers to wheat

19 Jan 2012 - South African livestock feed producers are turning to wheat as an alternative to corn for the first time in a decade after prices of the grain surged, the country’s biggest feed company said. Read more >>

Optivite appoints new distributors in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt

11 Jan 2012 - Optivite, one of the UK's largest specialist animal nutrition companies, is continuing to expand in the Middle East with the appointment of three new distributors in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Read more >>

Methane reduction with better feed conversion

01 Nov 2011 - Methane emissions are a hot issue in cattle farming. One way of lowering ruminant methane emissions is through improved feed conversion efficiency. Read more >>

Global enzyme market to reach $3.74 billion by 2015

11 Oct 2011 - Worldwide demand for industrial enzymes is expected to achieve levels of US$3.74 billion by 2015. Read more >>

Mozambique proposes law to axe VAT on animal feed raw materials

30 Sep 2011 - A new law proposed by Mozambique’s government plans to make raw materials used for the production of animal feed to be exempt from VAT. Read more >>

Research: Yeast in catfish feeds

23 Aug 2011 - In Egypt scientists of the National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries evaluated different additive levels of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, on the growth and production performances of a hybrid of two populations of Egyptian African catfish, Clarias gariepinus. Read more >>

Poultry project to boost Namibian feed milling

22 Aug 2011 - Namibia Poultry Industries is establishing a green field fully integrated poultry project and its feed subsidiary is expanding as a spin-off of the project. Read more >>

Firm commissions 22,000 tons fish feed plant

29 Jul 2011 - Grand Cereals Limited, based in Jos, Nigeria has commissioned a plant to be built for an annual production of 22,000 tons fish feed. Read more >>

Wadi Group further in private hands

20 Jul 2011 - Freiji, Nasrallah and Horus Private Equity Fund in Egypt have increased their share in Wadi Group to 95%. Read more >>

Egyptian feeding trials confirm sorghum performance

11 Jul 2011 - The US Grains Council has successfully completed two sorghum feeding trials in Egypt to demonstrate the use of non-tannin sorghum in broiler feed rations and to assess the nutritive value based on actual Egyptian conditions. Read more >>

Kenyan farmers turn poisonous weed into animal feed

08 Jul 2011 - In a project based on the principle that if you can’t stop it, harness it, pastoralists in the arid Baringo district (Rift Valley Province, Kenya) have found a way to commercialise a foreign weed that has for more than 20 years invaded their land and killed their livestock. Read more >>