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Animal Health, Company News, Live Stock, World

The acquisition encompasses two premix production facilities—known as the Pasuruan site in Surabaya and the Cibitung site in Jakarta—as well as laboratories, warehouses and offices across Indonesia

ADM, a global leader in human and animal nutrition, announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire PT Trouw Nutrition Indonesia, a subsidiary of Nutreco and a leading provider of functional and nutritional solutions for livestock farming in Indonesia. 

Incorporated in 2007, PT Trouw Nutrition Indonesia is a leading premix manufacturer, providing innovative and comprehensive nutrition solutions for the animal industry. Their premix production facilities feature full automation solutions with intelligent process optimization, and they are industry 4.0-ready with professional project management and execution. 

With the planned acquisition, ADM will be strengthening its premix and feed additives & ingredients (FA&I) business and strategically positioning itself to meet the anticipated market growth to sustain the rising demand for protein. The acquisition encompasses two premix production facilities—known as the Pasuruan site in Surabaya and the Cibitung site in Jakarta—as well as laboratories, warehouses and offices across Indonesia. 

“This acquisition will complement our regional footprint and will represent a step forward in achieving our vision of leading the animal nutrition industry,” said Gerald Wilflingseder, president of ADM’s animal nutrition business in APAC. “It will enable us to enhance our premix production capabilities, ensuring that we are strongly positioned to provide localized solutions and customized services swiftly to customers in Indonesia and the broader region. We believe this move will not only enhance ADM as a major player in premixes and FA&I in Indonesia but also reinforce our reputation as the preferred partner for customers looking for full animal nutrition solutions offerings.” 

Once the acquisition is complete, ADM will integrate PT Trouw Nutrition Indonesia into its wider footprint in Indonesia, creating new opportunities to broaden the portfolio of products and solutions offered to customers. In addition, Dr Pierre Domps, general manager of Animal Nutrition Indonesia at ADM, commented, “Our commitment extends beyond products and solutions; we strive to provide a spectrum of services. We will provide customised solutions and services backed by international technical expertise and support from our lab services. This approach ensures comprehensive support for local production, enabling a tailored strategy to meet the unique market demands in Indonesia and the Asia-Pacific region.” 

The acquisition encompasses two premix production facilities—known

AgroPolicy, Foodgrains, India, SAARC

The aim of this festival is to raise awareness and create a market for millets and millets-based products among the ASEAN Member states

The Indian Mission to ASEAN in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare is organising the ASEAN-India Millet Festival 2023, in Indonesia. The inaugural session of the festival took place in the Kota Kasablanka Mall, a prominent shopping destination in South Jakarta, Indonesia. A Millet-centric exhibition is being held as part of the festival featuring participation from Millet-based FPOs, start-ups and Indian chefs.

Aligned with the International Year of Millets (IYM) celebrations, an aim of this festival is to raise awareness and create a market for millets and millets-based products among the ASEAN Member states i.e. Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. During the festival, the Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare is leading a delegation from India, representing a diverse set of professionals engaged in the Indian millet ecosystem, including chefs, start-ups, representatives from Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs), industry leaders, state officials and more.

Additional Secretary at DA&FW and Head of the Indian Delegation Dr Maninder Kaur Dwivedi provided valuable insights into millet cultivation, processing and the business potential of these ancient grains. Joint Secretary (Crops) at DA&FW Shubha Thakur showcased India’s leading role in celebrating the International Year of Millets 2023 and the Indian government’s initiatives to encourage the adoption of millets through a captivating video, setting the stage for insightful panel discussions. Additionally, Deputy Head of BPN Dr Andriko Noto Susanto further highlighted the remarkable prospects of millet cultivation and its role in diversifying the South Asian food basket.

The exhibition aims to foster collaboration between ASEAN countries, celebrate cultural and culinary diversity and promote sustainable millet practices for a healthier future. The exhibition will also feature five Indian FPOs, namely Citi Block FPC, Jewargi Taluka Millets FPC, Bhumitrajalalpur, Vaam Agro, and Lambasingi Tribal Products FPC, and two start-ups namely Taru Naturals and Sattva Millets and Food Products (Mibbles) exhibiting unique millet-added products such as millet cookies, namkeen, khakhra, cakes, and more.

The aim of this festival is to

Acquaculture, Company News, Live Stock

PLB is widely recognised in the Indonesian aquaculture industry for its commitment to delivering quality post-larvae (PLs)

Prima Larvae Bali (PLB), a leading hatchery in Eastern Indonesia, is bolstered by the expertise of the Center for Aquaculture Technologies (CAT) to elevate their Whiteleg shrimp (vannamei) breeding program. This support enhances PLB’s commitment to delivering biosecure, top-quality postlarvae suited for Indonesia’s unique farming landscape, while also introducing cutting-edge genetic technology.

PLB is widely recognised in the Indonesian aquaculture industry for its commitment to delivering quality post-larvae (PLs). Through a meticulously designed selection scheme and larvae culture process, ensuring that each PL inherits the full genetic potential from the selected broodstock to achieve fast growth and disease resistance. Emphasising rigorous biosecurity measures, PLB exclusively produces 100 per cent Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) PL larvae. Only frozen feeds are used to nurture the shrimp broodstocks, with a firm stance against the use of fresh/live feeds within the facility. This dedication to excellence in larvae culture has not only set PLB apart but has also made a significant contribution to the aquaculture sector in the region.

In an ambitious move to further improve the quality of its offerings, PLB has enlisted the expertise of CAT, an industry leader in aquaculture research and development. Leveraging CAT’s use of advanced statistical models, both organisations aim to refine the selection of genetic lines for shrimp that grow quickly and thrive in commercial settings. CAT’s proven approach includes the utilisation of molecular markers and the latest technologies to generate genetically diverse and adaptable lines of shrimp. Their multi-generational selection methods have already demonstrated improvements in both growth rates and survival capabilities in commercial farm conditions.

PLB is widely recognised in the Indonesian

Agrotech, Company News, Sustainability, World

Manna MIND enables insect farming to be operated as a completely standalone setup even in rural farms, remote islands and fish farms or can be set up in a factory backyard or supermarket parking lot

Agritech company Manna Insect Oy announces Manna MIND Gen2, the world’s first technology that enables converting almost any kind of space, such as a shipping container or a warehouse, into an automatically climate-controlled and -optimised insect farming facility. The Manna MIND Gen2 also optimises power consumption, so an insect farming facility can be run even with solar panels alone, it works on all voltage levels, and enables farming insects profitably anywhere in the world, in any climate or weather conditions.

The solution’s 1st generation version is already in use with customers on five continents, and it specialises in managing the climatisation of used 20ft sea containers that are refurbished into insect-rearing facilities.
Manna Insect solves biowaste and animal feed problems with a set of solutions that are specialised in the utilisation of black soldier fly (BSF) to upcycle organic waste into cost-efficient and nutritious animal feed and organic fertiliser.

Manna MIND is a sensor and control unit that manages all equipment within an insect-rearing facility to optimise the growth or breeding conditions to be optimal at each stage of the larvae growth cycle, making the facility the perfect environment for both upcycling of biowaste at maximum efficiency and enabling the larvae to grow as much as possible during the rearing cycle, thus creating more animal feed in the form of insect protein, and better quality fertiliser as a side product.

Manna MIND enables insect farming to be operated as a completely standalone setup even in rural farms, remote islands and fish farms or can be set up in a factory backyard or supermarket parking lot. Farming of black soldier fly with Manna Insect’s solution requires minimal human input and workload, only approx. 6 hours for the 10-day growth period, which makes the whole insect production process extremely cost-efficient and thus profitable for a farmer.

Ykä Marjanen, Manna Insect’s CEO and founder comments; “The first generation of Manna MIND was tailored for 20ft sea containers, and proved that we can deploy solutions all over the world with locally available materials and equipment. We’ve shipped and installed Manna MIND units with clients on five continents during the first year of sales. Still, the cost of building the container is often too much for a chicken farmer in Kenya or a fish farmer in Indonesia, and we wanted to reach out to this enormous market segment with our new solution. The new Gen2 version is more versatile, smaller and has more features than the 1st generation MIND.”

“Manna MIND Gen2 is the world’s first of its kind from multiple aspects. First of all, it is the first such solution in the world that works on all electricity inputs from 110 to 220 to 430 V. It is extremely energy efficient and consumes less than 1kW (Manna 20ft shipping container reference setup), which allows the use of solar panels to operate the facility. It is also the first climatisation solution in the insect farming industry that is facility independent, meaning that the facility doesn’t have to be of a certain size, but can be suited to operate different size facilities efficiently. It is designed for small local operations upcycling from 5 tn to 200 tn of biowaste in a month from one site.

Manna MIND enables insect farming to be

Foodgrains, India, Supply Chain, Trade

To keep prices down last year India banned wheat and broken rice exports and imposed a 20 per cent export duty on non-basmati rice varieties

India will export around 1.05 million tonnes of food grains to Nepal, Indonesia, Senegal and the Gambia as part of economic diplomacy in 2023.

Last year to keep prices down, India banned wheat and broken rice exports and imposed a 20 per cent export duty on non-basmati rice varieties.

The Department of Food and public distribution has allowed exports of 300,000 tonnes of wheat to Nepal, 200,000 tonnes of broken rice to Indonesia, 500,000 tonnes of broken rice to Senegal, and 50,000 tonnes of broken rice to Gambia on a request by the external affairs ministry. 

The Food Corp of India (FCI) so far has procured a little over 26 metric tonnes of wheat in the 2023-24 (October-March) rabi marketing year against a target of 34.5 metric tonnes. A hot February and heavy rains in March and April lowered wheat production to below the agriculture ministry’s second estimate of 112.2 metric tonnes.

In the case of rice, FCI had procured 77.2 metric tonnes of paddy in the ongoing 2022-23 (April-September) kharif marketing season and 3.2 metric tonnes of paddy in the current 2023-24 rabi marketing season against an estimated target of 15.7 metric tonnes. 

Last year, India exported 1.8 metric tonnes of wheat, including 33,000 tonnes of 50,000 tonnes committed to Afghanistan as part of humanitarian assistance.

To keep prices down last year India

Company News, Finance, World

PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk has collaborated with PT Syngenta Indonesia to provide financial services for farmers through the CENTRIGO™ Farming Ecosystem.  The end-to-end ecosystem, aimed to support farmers’ needs and increase productivity and profitability, will be launched in October 2022.

The collaboration was formally announced at the signing ceremony of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Agus Noorsanto, Director of Institutional and Wholesale Business of BRI and Kazim Hasnain, President Director of PT Syngenta Indonesia on 13 September 2022. The collaboration involves various banking services provided by BRI for PT Syngenta Indonesia and all the stakeholders in its business ecosystem.

Agus Noorsanto said this collaboration will help improve the living standards of farmers and advance the agricultural sector in Indonesia. “All financial transaction management will be carried out efficiently through digital solutions, such as the Cash Management Platform – BRICaMS, Corporate Billing Management – BRICBM, Pasar Rakyat Indonesia – PARI, and others.”

PT Syngenta Indonesia is committed to advancing agriculture in Indonesia and ensuring sufficiency as well as quality in a sustainable manner. Through cutting-edge technologies, worldwide experience, and partnerships across the value chain, PT Syngenta Indonesia believes it can help accelerate the growth of the agricultural sector in Indonesia.

On the same occasion, Supari, Director of Micro Business of BRI, and Ronnie Keh, Director of PT Syngenta Indonesia, also signed a cooperation agreement on microcredits and digital solutions for farmers of the CENTRIGO™ Farming Ecosystem. In addition, A Letter of Intent (LOI) was also delivered to Amam Sukrianto, Director of Small and Medium Business of BRI, regarding business cooperations in the SME sector.

The goal of CENTRIGO™ Farming Ecosystem is in line with BRI’s mission to become the champion of financial inclusion that embraces all levels of society. BRI’s experience in disbursing loans from ultra-micro, micro, small and medium enterprises to the corporate segment, will greatly support Indonesia’s agricultural ecosystem.

PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (Persero) Tbk has

Agro chems – Pesticides, World

The innovation has been applied in Indonesia, the world’s third-largest rice producer

Provivi, a leading provider of pheromone-based crop protection solutions, and Syngenta Crop Protection, announced the commercialisation of Nelvium, a new mating disruption solution, to effectively and more safely control detrimental pests in rice. This crop serves as the primary energy source for half of the world’s people.

While pheromones have been utilised in agriculture for more than 30 years as a pest control method, this will be the first time this innovation has been applied to rice in Indonesia, the world’s third-largest rice producer and one of the world’s biggest rice consumers.

Pheromone solutions provide a foundation service in insect control, ensuring the natural technologies are able to maximise the validity and scalability of pest management systems, significantly decreasing the development of resistant populations.

The innovation has been applied in Indonesia,