The U.S. Grains Council (USGC) recently announced positive
international developments with regard to the importation of dried
distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) in Algeria and plans by
Taiwan to purchase U.S. grains products.
This positive development comes a year after USGC and USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service announced
that a three and a half year effort to convince Algeria to remove a
value added tax and custom tax on all feed imports to Algeria.
Controls are discouraging the agricultural trading giants from
investing in the country's storage sector despite a huge potential for elevator production in a country where US$3.5bn of grain is written off
every year.
While
India is the second-ranked rice and wheat producing country after China, agricultural trading houses have been reluctant to invest in
the country thanks to the degree of government control over the sector.
Adisseo has been named the winner of the 2013 Information Technology Innovation Award for its web-based platform, Precise Nutrition Evaluation (PNE). The award acknowledges technological advancements in the feed and food industry to meet the demand of a growing population.
PNE which was launched in September 2012, combines an internet-accessible database with near infrared spectroscopy technology, analysis of ingredients for the determination of apparent metabolizable energy (AME) and digestible amino acids (DAA), and ISO-certified wet chemistry methods that are both stringent and high quality.
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| English: India. Area controlled by India in dark green; Claimed but uncontrolled territories in light green. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
