Table 3. Non-EU Europe region:
Industrial feed production in
top 10 countries, totalling 39.5
million metric tons (2008 estimate)
(million
COUNTRY
metric tons)
Russia 20. 1
Turkey 10. 1
Ukraine 4. 3
Nor way 1. 7
Switzerland 1. 4
Belarus 0.9
Moldova 0.5
Serbia 0.2
Croatia 0.2
Albania 0.1
Non-EU countries in Europe showed more
than minor growth.
Table 4. North America, Central
America, and Caribbean region:
Industrial feed production in
top 10 countries, totalling 208.1
million metric tons (2008 estimate)
(million
COUNTRY
metric tons)
USA 154.5
Mexico 25.0
Canada 20. 5
Guatemala 1. 8
Dominican Republic 1. 8
Panama 1. 2
Honduras 0.9
El Salvador 0.9
Jamaica 0.9
Costa Rica 0.6
Mature markets in Northa nd Central America
showed only minor growth since 2007.
Table 5. South America region:
Industrial feed production in
top 10 countries, totalling 80.3
million metric tons (2008 estimate)
(million
COUNTRY
metric tons)
Brazil 59.0
Argentina 6. 5
Chile 4. 2
Venezuela 3. 1
Colombia 2. 8
Peru 1. 9
Ecuador 1. 5
Uruguay 0.5
Bolivia 0.5
Paraguay 0.3
South American feed manufacture is showing less growth than some other regions.
Table 6. Asia-Pacific region:
Industrial feed production in top
10 countries, totaling 191 million
metric tons (2008 estimate)
(million
COUNTRY
metric tons)
China 93.0
Japan 24. 9
Korea 16. 2
Thailand 11. 3
India 10. 4
Indonesia 8. 1
Taiwan 7. 4
Philippines 6. 3
Australia 5. 4
Malaysia 5.0
Several hot spots for growth are evident in
this region, not only China.
ago. Evidently, the main expansion of 2008
was among the smaller players.
Figure 3 underlines differences between
the largest producers when it charts the evolution of feed manufacturing tonnages in several
of these top territories over the last 10 years.
China and Brazil stand out from the rest, on
a scale where 100 on the index relates to the
quantity they produced in 1998.
From Table 2, the commercial feed business in the European Union continues to be
dominated by the trio of France, Germany
and Spain. The UK, Italy and the Netherlands
follow close behind. In the relatively mature
market that is Europe, however, national
volumes show only minor changes from year
to year. The exceptions are places outside
the EU community, in the form of Russia and
Turkey (Table 3).
Table 7. Middle East and
Africa region: Industrial feed
production in top 10 countries,
totaling 29.9 million metric tons
(2008 estimate)
(million metric
COUNTRY
tons)
South Africa 9. 1
Saudi Arabia 5. 9
Egypt 4. 3
Iran 3.0
Israel 2. 1
Morocco 1. 5
Algeria 1. 5
Nigeria 1. 1
Jordan 0.7
Tunisia 0.7
The main poultry market areas of the Middle
East and Africa seemed to have fared well.
no growth in production in the coming year
due to depressed economic conditions. The
other is much more upbeat, and says that
an early bounce back for the global economy
could see Brazil’s poultry feed output growing by 5%.
Warm thanks from Feed International
once again to all the organisations and
individuals who have helped compile this tonnage account for every national feed industry
of note. The regional shares of the world total
calculated with their help appear in Figure 2.
These shares demonstrate more than ever
the three power-bases of feed manufacturing, with North-Central America, Europe
and Asia each having almost one-third of
the global tonnage last year.
Two top players stand out from the list
in Table 1 of the 10 places we regard as
having produced the
most industrial feed in
the past 12 months.
They are the USA and
the European Union,
on the usual basis of
treating the EU- 27 as
a single entity. See
from the table that the
combined output of
the Top 10 amounted
to approximately 556
million metric tons.
Although this is still
over 79% of our estimated world total, it
represents only a small
growth from the 553
million metric tons accorded to the 10 largest feed producers in
our review 12 months
Figure 4. Feed by species in 2007 (%)
Market share of feed in Brazil - 2008
PUIFST
NJOFSBM TBMU
EPHT DBUT
CFFG
MBZFS T
FRVJOF
GJTI TISJNQ
EBJSZ
QPVMUSZ
TXJOF
Poultry continues to dominate feed production in Brazil.
