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Global feed outlook for 2021
A look forward at major trends that are expected to impact the feed industry worldwide according to experts in the sector from around the globe.
BY TREENA HEIN F
or those who pay close attention to farming and food production, it’s not hard to guess the one overall trend that’s likely to most impact the global animal feed industry in 2021. That trend, as you might have
guessed, is sustainability. New ingredients, new feed manu- facturing processes and feeding technologies, increased digi- tisation of the industry − these aspects will all continue to re- duce the impact of animal feed production on the planet’s environment and allow the industry to thrive for years to come. In Europe, as in other parts of the world, regulations requir- ing more sustainability are already here. Foremost among them, explains Robbie Walker, Growth Officer at Alltech Europe, is a set of EU regulatory and policy guidelines called the ‘Green Deal,’ which relate to both environmentally- friendly practices and boosting the green economy. In terms of how this deal will impact the animal feed industry, Walker explains that “there will be restrictions on nitrogen run-off, so lower protein diets and precision diets will be needed and we will require technology to gather data and turn it into useful insights for decision-making.” The deal also includes a legal target of 25 per cent organic animal feed production in the EU by 2030, supporting the growth of organic farming, which is already strong in the EU and considered to be the most sustainable method of crop and livestock production. Patrick Charlton, Vice President of All- tech Europe, adds that because “there are expense and sus- tainability issues with fish meal,” Alltech is actively research- ing alternative proteins such as insect meal to replace fish meal in its aquaculture feeds. “The first production of insect meal is coming on stream in the UK and there are consider- able investments being made in France, the Netherlands
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and Spain,” he says. “The insect feed industry in Europe has stated that within about five years, there will be a million metric tonnes of oil and meal produced each year.” Some yeast proteins are also being used in feed, Charlton reports, mostly in fish and chick feed where diets are based on high-quality protein. A two-year multi-partner project called FEED-X, which is de- signed to remove the barriers to more affordable and sus- tainable aquaculture feed production worldwide by 2030, is just ending, but its lessons will be applied for years to come. FEED-X has focused on salmon and shrimp, two species with particular feed requirements and infrastructure. “The target of the project is for 10% of the global feed industry to in- clude alternative feed ingredients in their value chains,” state FEED-X organisers on their website. “This will be achieved by sourcing, testing, financing and scaling up al- ternative feed ingredients. The expected impact of the pro- ject is that it will significantly reduce the environmental im- pacts of aquaculture seafood in terms of feed ingredient production, specifically ingredients that contribute to de- forestation, exhaust global carbon emission budgets or those that are sourced from non-responsible fishing practic- es.” The 2020 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aqua culture, published by the United Nations Food & Agri- culture Organization (FAO), also calls for guidelines for sus- tainable aquaculture industry growth, including ‘sustainable intensification’ and ‘innovative value chains.’
PHOTO: DILOK KLAISATAPORN
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