Zhengbang to Invest in Integrated Project in Siping

On December 8^th 2013, memorandum was signed between Zhengbang Group and the people＇s government oF Siping City of Jilin Province. Zhengbang Group will make an investment in building up integrated project in Siping City, with regard to grain purchase and storage, feed processing, meat products processing and a million pigs breeding, which is another significant achievement of Zhengbang＇s Project aiming for an output value of 100 billion yuan.     

hnports of Livestock and Poultry Meat Kept Rapidly Growth in the First Three Quarters

Lately, Cargill, one of the world＇s top 4 food conglomerates, inaugurated an integrated poultry operation in China. As it＇s known that this broiler production project in An＇hui is the biggest single investment of Cargill in China （US$2,500 million） and also its first animal protein project in China. Full processing capacity of this plant in a year can reach 60 million birds meanwhile covering the whole industrial chain from feed manufacture, broiler raising to slaughtering and processing.     

Development in the Process of Cooperation and Innovation

With the developing of the economy as well as the increasing of people＇s living standards in China, the industrial production of China＇s feed industry is expanding at the growth rate of 7%-8% annually. As a result, the feed additive sector is advancing vigorously. As a leader in the animal nutrition and the Methionine production in the world, Adissseo is the complex supplier of solid and liquid Methionine, vitamin and the enzyme. In Jan.,2006, China National Bluestar carried out the buying-out of French Adisseo, which promoted the French company development in China. Particularly in 2008, the decision of establishing a plant in Tianjin showed its attention to the market in China and the Asia-pacific regions. As the opening of Beijing VIV, Chert Guangpeng, chief-editor of Feed Industry Magazine, talked to Adisseo CEO, Mr. Gerard Deman on this issue.     

How Will South Africa Benefit from Joining the BRICS

This paper aims to discuss how South Africa’s accession to the BRICS will impact on the development of South Africa ’s infrastructure development. It is a well know fact among development scholars and experts that in order for sustainable economic development a country’s infrastructure needs to be on point and flourish. The South African government has realised the importance of this and in the National Development Plan the government highlights infrastructure development in South Africa as one of the key areas of growth and development for job creation and economic development. Discourse around the BRICS is discussed, who and what they are, a brief history on each country is also provided in the paper. It has also been said that South Africa ’s accession to the BRICS will be valuable for the rest of Africa as well because South Africa is seen as a gateway to other African countries. The relationship between Africa and China is one that is highly contested by the west however it seems that it still continues to flourish and this shall be briefly discussed in the paper. Talks of a BRICS development bank is an area that will also be touched on, this bank is set to fund infrastructure projects especially in Africa amongst its other duties. The main objective of this paper is to access whether or not South Africa will benefit from entering the BRICS in December 2011 and this is explored in the paper.     

The Analysis of China＇s Feed Sector Situation in 2010 and the Forecast of Its Trend in 2011

Wang Xiaohong, director of Feed Division from the Ministry of Agriculture, said that in 2010, China＇s total feed output was expected to reach 156.08 million tons, increasing by 5.4% over the same period of last year, in which the output of the compound feed, concentrated feed and premix will be 125.63 million tons,     

Muyang Group Gained the Largest Order in the Middle East,Causing the Concerns of CCTV

<正>Afew days ago, Jiangsu Muyang Group, the leading enterprise of feed machinery and engineering in China, joined hands with Sulaiman Al Rajhi who is rich in Saudi Arabia again, and signed the largest flocks and herds feed engineering package project in the Middle East, causing the concerns of CCTV.     

2013 Muyang New Production Facilily

Muyang Group＇s new state of the art feed machinery manufacturing base had officially put into operation following the grand opening ceremony scheduled was held on the 18th of April     

Top Feed Companies Report Positive Market Signals

After a difficult start in 2009, market conditions for the world＇s feed manufacturers have generally improved over the last 12 months. The effects are reflected in the annual reports of the companies covering their most recent full fiscal year. Many describe a gradual easing of the struggle to maintain volumes, against the background of a slow recovery in animal numbers and farm profitability after the successive miseries of high grain prices and economic recession.     

GMOs in animal agriculture: time to consider both costs and benefits in regulatory evaluations

In 2012, genetically engineered （GE） crops were grown by 17.3 million farmers on over 170 million hectares. Over 70% of harvested GE biomass is fed to food producing animals, making them the major consumers of GE crops for the past 15 plus years. Prior to commercialization, GE crops go through an extensive regulatory evaluation. Over one hundred regulatory submissions have shown compositional equivalence, and comparable levels of safety, between GE crops and their conventional counterparts. One component of regulatory compliance is whole GE food/feed animal feeding studies. Both regulatory studies and independent peer-reviewed studies have shown that GE crops can be safely used in animal feed, and rDNA fragments have never been detected in products （e.g. milk, meat, eggs） derived from animals that consumed GE feed. Despite the fact that the scientific weight of evidence from these hundreds of studies have not revealed unique risks associated with GE feed, some groups are calling for more animal feeding studies, including long-term rodent studies and studies in target livestock species for the approval of GE crops. It is an opportune time to review the results of such studies as have been done to date to evaluate the value of the additional information obtained. Requiring long-term and target animal feeding studies would sharply increase regulatory compliance costs and prolong the regulatory process associated with the commercialization of GE crops. Such costs may impede the development of feed crops with enhanced nutritional characteristics and durability, particularly in the local varieties in small and poor developing countries. More generally it is time for regulatory evaluations to more explicitly consider both the reasonable and unique risks and benefits associated with the use of both GE plants and animals in agricultural systems, and weigh them against those associated with existing systems, and those of regulatory inaction. This would represent a shift away from a GE evaluation process that currently focuses only on risk assessment and identifying ever diminishing marginal hazards, to a regulatory approach that more objectively evaluates and communicates the likely impact of approving a new GE plant or animal on agricultural production systems.     

4 ＂100%＂ Aims of Feed Quality Realized in 2008

The four ＂100%＂ aims ty control work have been set for feed quality safefully achieved in 2008, thanks to the swift action, powerful measure, and comprehensive work of the animal husbandry and feed administrations at all levels, the journalist understood at the protein feed ingredients supervision work conference on January 22, 2009.     

Greetings and Introduction

<正>It is my great pleasure to write a few words here to congratulate the "new born baby",Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology (JASB),which is the first Chinese journal in the field of animal science published in English.JASB is a quarterly journal supported by Chinese Association of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine (CAAV). The purpose of the journal is to introduce Chinese research achievements of animal science and technology world over,and to strengthen academic communication between China and other countries.Subjects of the journal are related widely of animal science such as:animal genetics and breeding,reproduction and physiology,biotechnology,nutrition and feed processing,environmental protection and grassland management. Animal science and animal production in China have been developed rapidly during last 20 years.China has become the largest meat and egg producer in the world. However,at meantime we know clearly that the development of China's animal science and biotechnology is still behind the world advanced level.We have to work hard,and to learn more from developed countries.Let us do all our efforts to make the "new born baby" growing healthy and strong.     

China＇s Feed Output will be Up to 250 Million Ton in 2020

General Manager of Feed Department of COFCO, Vice-President of China Association, Liu Xiaoyu, states that the feed output in China will be over 150 million ton this year and the rigid demand for corn will also increase with it. This may rise up corn＇s price, and the growth will be greater and greater. News from Media, on Oct. 19, 2010.     

Muyang Launches New Brand-FAMSUN

Chinese feed machinery manufacturers Muyang launched their new brand, ＂FAMSUN＂ at China＇s Livestock Expositionheld in Qingdao.     

Company Building New Feed-Premix Plant in Nanjing

Archer Daniels Midland Company is building a new feed-premix plant in the city of Nanjing, in eastern China, bringing to three the total number of facilities in the company＇s Chinese premix network.     

Poultry,Fish Feed Producer Reports 36% Net Income Growth in 2010

<正>China's animal feed producer Guangdong Haid Group reported a net income growth of 36%, to RMB 210 million (US$32.2 million) for 2010.Haid sold 2.38 million tons of animal feed in 2010, including     

WH Group Starts Pig Meat Exports to Russia

China＇s Ruibang Farming Development Co and Dutch pig genetics supplier Topigs have signed an agreement to establishbreeding farms and genetic centres in North China＇s Hebei Province. Ruibang, based in the provincial capital of Zhangjiakou, plans to invest more than USD 33 million to establish pig breeding and propagation centres with up to 2,500 sows each.     

Mr. Wang Zhicai Made a Report on the Situation of Animal Husbandry and Feed in 2009 and Its Development Trend in 2010

He analyzed and summarized the production situation of animal husbandry and feed in 2009 systematically and forecasted the general trend of development in 2010. As he stated： in 2009, the animal husbandry withstood the challenges of a series of difficulties such as the global financial crisis,     

Chemical Composition and Ruminal Digestibility of Ceratoides,a Salt-tolerant Perennial Plant,at Different Years

It has been proposed that salt-tolerant plant could be used as a feed resource for ruminants whereby salt would be removed from salinized land (Asian-Aust.J.Anim.Sci.(2002) 15:998-1001).Ceratoides arborescens (Losinsk.) Tsien et C.G.Ma is known as a drought-and salt-tolerant plant,a kind of shrubs,growing in semi-arid land of Inner Mongolia.Because the covering effect of the perennial plant as a mulch over the soil might be expected,the optimum covering effect would be obtained after the growth period.The perennial plant produces seeds around summer and end its growth thereafter.Nutrient value of the perennial salt-tolerant plant,however,had not been reported in flowering period at different year.It is necessary to know the ruminal degradability of the plants of each growing year in order to determine the regimen to diet for ruminants.The present experiment,therefore,was undertaken to analyze the digestibility and chemical composition of Ceratoides arborescens as feed for ruminants.     

Occurrence of mycotoxins in feed ingredients and complete feeds obtained from the Beijing region of China

Background：The current study was carried out to provide a reference for the control of mycotoxin contamination in feed ingredients and complete feeds for swine.Methods：A total of 55 feed ingredients,including 14 corn,13 wheat bran,11 soybean meal and 17 dried distillers grains with solubles（DDGS） as well as 76 complete swine feeds including 7 creep feeds,14 starter feeds,14 grower feeds,18 grower-finisher feeds,10 gestating sow feeds,and 13 lactating sow feeds were randomly collected from15 swine farms located in the Beijing region of China from July to August 2011.Immunoaffinity clean-up,using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography（HPLC） in combination with UV or Fluorescence Detection,was used for quantitative analysis of aflatoxin B,（AFB,）,deoxynivalenol（DON）,zearalenone（ZEA） and ochratoxin A（OTA） in the ingredients and complete feeds.Results：DON and ZEA were the most prevalent mycotoxins found.DON was detected at percentages of 93,92,54,100 and 97%with a mean level of 1.01,0.44,0.05,1.36 and 0.65 ppm in the samples of corn,wheat bran,soybean meal,DDGS and complete feeds,respectively.The detected percentages of ZEA were 100,100,54,100 and 100 with mean levels of 109.1,14.9,9.2,882.7 and 58.9 ppb in the same samples.In the wheat bran and soybean meal samples,the content of all four mycotoxins were below the maximum limits set by Chinese regulations while the percentage of samples that exceeded regulatory limits were 7,57 and 7%for corn,and 7,14 and 3%for the complete feeds for AFB,,DON and OTA respectively.DDGS showed the most serious mycotoxin contamination and the percentage of samples that exceeded regulatory limits were 6,88 and 41%,for AFB,,DON and ZEA,respectively.Conclusions：This paper is the first to present data on the natural occurrence of AFB,,DON,ZEA and OTA in ingredients and complete feeds obtained from swine farms in China＇s Beijing region.The data shows that feed ingredients and complete swine feeds obtained from these farms are most often contaminated with DON     

The Increased Import of Feed Wheat Has Put the World Supply and Demand in Tension

According to the media information on November 9th, the Agriculture Department of the United States said in their latest prediction report that the feed wheat need of China will increase up to two million ton, which will cause the tension of the world inventory by the end of the year. A few months ago,