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March 10, 2011

Vietnamese animal feed imports face huge losses if Indian feed rejected

Vietnamese animal feed importers face huge losses if they are forced to return almost 100,000 tonnes of maize and soybean to India because of termites. The feed arrived from India in early January and the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Plant Protection Department has asked importers to return the goods rather than allowing it to be fumigated as usual.

The department said Vietnam was free from the invasive pest and it had told Indian suppliers to fumigate the feed before it was sent because it was such a large quantity that would have been too difficult to fumigate. Vietnam Feed Association’s chairman, Le Ba Lich, said the department had previously allowed feed stock to be imported and fumigation if termites were detected. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine from Perendale Publishers.
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