Author: Hithaishi CB

Cargill Animal Nutrition and Health business in the U.S. reinforces Cargill has acquired two feed mills from Compana Pet Brands to help meet the needs of ag retail and large ranching and farming operations in western and central regions of the U.S. The newly acquired Kansas City mill is located close to Cargill’s Kansas City feed facility and enables the company to continue to be a key supplier in the area and grow with customers in the region. “These two feed mills are a perfect fit for our Cargill Animal Nutrition and Health business in the U.S. to better position…

BASF to continue field-testing farming strategies to mitigate agriculture’s contribution to climate change In a recently published report, BASF has shared the first results from its multi-year Global Carbon Field Trials. The results demonstrate that a reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in agriculture of up to 30 percent is possible compared to standard farming approaches – a target to which the company committed in 2020 to help farmers reduce their GHG emissions per ton of crop produced. The emissions reduction requires tailored climate smart approaches and varies by specific crop and region. The trials were conducted across various geographies…

Rio Tinto Chief Decarbonisation officer Jonathon McCarthy explains potential of Pongamia seed oil as a feedstock for renewable diesel, a cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels Rio Tinto, a British-Australian multinational company leading as mining group will develop Pongamia seed farms in Australia as part of a new biofuels pilot. The project will explore the potential of Pongamia seed oil as a feedstock for renewable diesel, a cleaner alternative to traditional fossil fuels. The pilot aims to determine if Pongamia seed oil can contribute to Rio Tinto’s renewable diesel needs while potentially contributing to the growth of a new biofuel sector…

Prime focus to conversion of biomass-based feedstocks, including sugars, cellulose, plant oils, and lignin, to sustainable chemicals and materials. Braskem the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, announced the opening of its Renewable Innovation Center at Lexington, Mass. Braskem’s new 35,000-square-foot innovation center will accelerate innovation in renewable chemicals and materials. This innovation center is the latest expansion of Braskem’s global Innovation & Technology footprint. Capabilities at the new center will expand Braskem’s competencies in biotechnology, catalysis, and process engineering. A particular focus will be…

Annual Awards Program Recognizes Innovation in Agricultural and Food Technologies around the Globe Renaissance BioScience, a leader in yeast bioengineering, announced that it has been selected as the winner of the “Crop Protection Solution of the Year” award in the fifth annual Global Awards program conducted by AgTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, innovations and products in today’s global agriculture and food technology markets. In the area of global agricultural crop protection, Renaissance has developed and is commercializing through collaborative partnerships the world’s first yeast-based RNA interference (RNAi) precision biopesticide platform technology that…

Fi Asia Indonesia 2024, the largest gathering of food and beverage (F&B) ingredients professionals in the ASEAN region, successfully concluded on 6 September, with unprecedented success. The three-day tradeshow broke all records – attracting a record of over 22,000 industry stakeholders, and featured more than 700 branded suppliers from 38 countries, showcasing thousands of food ingredients and F&B innovations. Ms. Rungphech (Rose) Chitanuwat, Regional Portfolio Director ASEAN at Informa Markets, enthusiastically expressed her sincere gratitude to all participants, exhibitors, and speakers who contributed to the ongoing success of Fi Asia. “We are thrilled to have again set new records, while…

Project enables Aramal-Tocok FFF MPC to grow unshelled peanuts as well as provide mechanization services, in-kind credits, and loans to local farmers The Department of Agriculture (DA), through the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP), formally turned over the P15-million peanut production, consolidation, and marketing project to the Aramal-Tocok Federation of Free Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (FFF MPC). The said project comprises a P14.9-million peanut consolidation and storage facility, trucks, tractors, and financial capital. In 2023, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported 31,772.15 metric tons (MT) of peanuts were produced natiomwide. Ilocos Region was the top peanut-producing region with a record of…

Director-General QU Dongyu addresses G20 Agriculture Working Group Ministerial Meeting in Brazil The Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, today called for greater cooperation within the G20 family of nations as global hunger targets remain worryingly out of reach. In his opening address to G20 Agriculture Working Group (AWG) Ministerial Meeting in Chapada dos Guimarães, Brazil, Qu reminded the audience that 733 million people globally continue to face hunger, meaning the world is still far off track from achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (Zero Hunger). While notable progress has been made in the Latin American…

Gratto Nema, a solution that controls eggs, juveniles and adults of the main phytonematodes. Vitales, part of the UbyAgro Group, a company specializing in biological control solutions has launched Gratto product portfolio, which includes the highly efficient and sustainable Gratto Nema solution for integrated pest management. Gratto Nema, a solution that controls eggs, juveniles and adults of the main phytonematodes. Formulated with the fungus Purpureocillium lilacinum, strain PL11, the product is recommended for soil application and seed treatment to control the nematodes Meloidogyne incognita and Meloidogyne javanica. The prodcut is expected to have proven agronomic efficiency in lettuce, carrot, and soybean crops, and can…

The initial phase will see an investment of $200M Vietnamese logistics company Dong Tam Group (DTG) and Korea’s CS Wind Corp. have signed a cooperation agreement under which the Vietnamese outfit will lease land to the Korea equipment manufacturer for the construction of a large-scale wind power factory in Vietnam. The facility will be located in the Long Southeast Asia Industrial Park at the Long An International Port. Under the agreement, DTG will lease 50 hectares of industrial and service land to CS Wind, which will build a factory and storage yeard for onshore and offshore wind towers, as well…