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Detail

Area
China (Mainland)
Commodity Group
Grains
Commodity
Maize
Date
21/04/2021
Policy Category
Consumption and marketing
Policy Instrument
Government market intervention
Description
Released new guidelines to reduce the amount of maize and soymeal used in meal for pig and chicken maize and soymeal feed. Alternative crop sources were proposed to substitute maize feed (e.g. wheat, sorghum, barley, rice and cassava) and soymeal (e.g. canola cake, rapeseed meal, cottonseed meal, peanut meal, sunflower meal, distillers’ dried grains, palm meal, flax meal, sesame meal and other maize processing by-products).