AreaChina (Mainland)

Commodity GroupGrains

CommodityMaize

Date21/04/2021

Policy CategoryConsumption and marketing

Policy InstrumentGovernment market intervention

DescriptionReleased 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).