Due mainly to the high cost of feed in West Africa, species diversification is gaining prominence, with fish farmers associations encouraging farmers to grow other species with lower feed costs.
Aquaculture is crucial to food security and the economy in West African countries and feed is one of the key factors. In Ghana, stakeholders are discussing local ingredients as alternatives for cost-effective feeds.
Nouvelles Vagues is a French scientific and technical platform offering a wide range of services to the aquafeed industry.
Nutreco presented a new approach focused on creating phytotechnology solutions to support the performance, health and welfare of aquatic species, farm and companion animals.
The use of krill in fish and shrimp diets is on the rise but how to meet the growing demand for this valuable ingredient? Aker BioMarine turned to an unmanned drone vehicle, backed by AI and robotics, to predict the best fishing spot and to increase the volumes caught.
At the recently held F3's biannual meeting, industry stakeholders discussed different initiatives to replace marine ingredients and their impact on farmers' acceptance and along the value chain.
Norway-based startup NoMy aims to transform food industry sidestreams into food and feed ingredients through fungi fermentation.
Norwegian company Berggylta aims to process fish blood into a feed source.
Why is it taking so much time for novel ingredients to scale up? Aquaculture investors discussed the opportunities and bottlenecks in scaling up novel ingredients at F3’s biannual meeting.
Southeast Asia has emerged as the top region to produce insects for feed with climate conditions and lower labor costs as the key drivers. AFFIA discussed the current Asian insect scenario and what to expect from the upcoming 2024 Insect to Feed the World conference.
In a global context of increased population, grains are expected to underpin all feeds going forward for the foreseeable future with corn-derived co-products as part of the solutions available to the aquafeed industry.
With the first aquafeed mills certified and more in the pipeline, Aquafeed.com talked with ASC to get some insights on the challenges and opportunities of the standard.
“We have quite a large potential for growth in the animal feed business that requires capital," said Matts Johansen, CEO of Aker BioMarine.
dsm-firmenich recently entered the SCPs arena and aims to achieve a near-zero carbon footprint.
The feed industry is behind in digitalization and automation. ANDRITZ is bringing this technology that the company has applied to other industries to the feed industry to be the partner that builds the roadmap toward this journey.
The project aims at creating a knowledge-based sustainable product that answers to modern Millennial principles of life, considering techno-economic, animal welfare, environmental and societal aspects as a whole.
“It is a very complex process but we are happy with the system that we have in place today and the risk of contamination is very low,” Patricia Sugui, ESG manager at CJ Selecta, told Aquafeed.com.
While testing tunicate meal together with Skretting in aquafeeds, Pronofa calls for facilitating insect production to drive change now.
The country is currently facing a corn shortage that will lead to further increases in feed prices and discussions are being held to find ways of dealing with the problem.
MicroHarvest is working on diversifying its production to ingredients that are not only a source of protein but support growth performance in aquaculture.
