IN BRIEF
VIV Russia received 6,335 visitors:
Organisers of the 4th edition of trade show VIV
Russia report that the May 2009 event in Moscow
received 6,335 visitors, some 14% more than when
the exhibition was held in 2007. The proportion of
foreign visitors increased from 25% to 30%.
Vietnam’s cattle feed import value
decreases: Vietnam’s General Statistics
Office reports that Vietnam imported “cattle feed
and supplies” worth US$585 million in the first
four months of this year, a decrease of 30.9% as
compared with the same period in 2008.
South Africa’s corn use decreases:
South Africa used 3% less maize (mainly yellow corn)
in its animal feeds during the country’s 2008-09
marketing year, says a report from the USDA’s foreign
agricultural service. Most South African animal feeds
are corn-based, but usage was reduced by a lower
feed requirement as local consumers cut back
on their purchases of meat and milk. Overall corn
consumption nationally is expected to increase 1.9%
to 9.31 million metric tons in the 2009-10 period. With
2. 4 million hectares planted and likely to yield 11. 2
million metric tons, South Africa could have about 1.8
million metric tons available for export.
Kiotechagil appoints distributors in
South Africa and Thailand: Kiotechagil
has appointed distributors in South Africa and
Thailand. In South Africa, Kiotechagil has signed
with Protea Animal Feeds, part of the Omnia
Group which has a capitalization of more than
US$122 million (one billion rand). Protea will act as
distributor for Kiotechagil in other Southern African
countries including Angola, Botswana, Democratic
Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique,
Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. In
Thailand, Kiotechagil has appointed Bangkok based
Lic Agrotech Ltd., which supplies feed ingredients
and premixes to all sectors of the feed industry.
FAO revises poultry meat
production downwards
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New projections from the Food and Agriculture Organisation
FAO) of the United Nations revise downwards the outlook for world
poultry meat production that the agency issued in November 2008.
Where formerly it thought that a 3% increase in global output would
be possible in 2009, this has now been dropped to just 1% compared
with 2008, the slowest pace of growth for the sector this decade. It
would mean a production of about 94.7 million metric tons.
The revision is due mainly to the avian influenza epidemic in Asia,
ays FAO, with numerous further outbreaks having been reported
since the end of last year. World pigmeat production in 2009 is forecast to increase by 2% to 106 million meetric tons and global beef
output to remain unchanged at around 65 million metric tons.
