AreaChina (Mainland)

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date21/04/2021

Policy CategoryConsumption and marketing

Policy InstrumentFeed use guidelines

DescriptionIssued guidelines calling on reduced use of maize and soybean meal in pig and poultry feed rations, with the aim of broadening sources of feed materials, improving their effective supply and utilization and creating a new formula structure suitable to the country's conditions. The document identifies paddy, husked and broken rice, among other commodities, as alternatives to maize in feed rations, further to suggesting new formulations based on these alternatives for the various broad geographical regions.