Daily Digest: 07/06/12

Hello,

It may be drizzly here in the UK but we've got a whole host of interesting stories to cheer us up:

• Roger Gilbert, of Grain and Feed Milling Technology magazine explains the 'PPLAPP', a mobile app to keep you to to date with the grain and feed worlds while on the move.  Watch video...
• New feed mill to boost Fiji's agricultural production.  Read more...
• State-of-the-art fish feed mill ready to go in Kashmir, India.  Read more...
• BioAmber's Sarnia, Canada plant impresses with it's renewable bio-chemicals.  Read more...
• US Court cracks down on use of antibiotics in animal feed.  Read more...
• Report: Australian famr trade threatens biodiversity.  Read more...

Tell us what you think...

Sarsabz Kashmir (Photo credit: NotMicroButSoft (Back-in-Town))

China helps set up first feed mill in Fiji

The Fijian government on Thursday commended China for helping establish the first feed mill in the island nation. Lt. Colonel Mason Smith, permanent secretary of Fiji's Ministry of Agriculture, told media that engineers from China are in Fiji to set up the country's first feed mill at the Koronivia Research Station, as a response to the plight of livestock farmers.

According to the official, it will take Chinese engineers two weeks to set up the mill and another two weeks to train officials of his ministry to operate it. The feed mill would be commissioned in the third quarter of the year. Read more ...

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