24/01/14: New director of SPACE appointed; IFIF publishes Chinese feed manual; maize mill re-opens in Zimbabwe

Marcel Denieul was unanimously elected president of the international trade fair SPACE during  a board of directors meeting in Rennes, France on Monday. He succeeds Jean-Michel Lemetayer. 

Denieul has been president of the Ille et Vilaine Chamber of Agriculture since February 2013.

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The International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) recently announced the launch of  a Chinese language version of the “Feed Manual of Good Practices for the Feed Industry”.

The manual, was published by IFIF and FAO to increase safety and feed quality at the production level, and was officially presented to the to the Chinese Feed Manufacturers Association (CFIA) at the FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy.

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A Zimbabwean maize mill was re-opened by manufactuirng company National Foods Holdings Limited recently, reported allAfrica.

Jeremy Brook, chief executive of National Foods said the company was delighted to bring the mill back in to service. The mill has been in a state of maintenance since Zimbabwe introduced multi-currency trading in 2009.

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