The Animal Feed Manufacturers Association (AFMA) has entered into a joint venture with the University of Pretoria (UP) to launch Africa’s first research and training feed mill at the UP’s Miertjie le Roux Experimental Farm in South Africa.

Optiline meets tilapia farmers’ demand for higher growth rates at a lower feed conversion ratio. It will first be available to Skretting Africa’s customers and later in other tilapia production regions around the world.

South African company, Aqua Management Technologies (AMT), has developed custom feed formulation and technology for RAS systems that, if applied correctly, will make them economically viable.

Skretting brought together leaders in the Nigerian industry to set the course for a more productive development at the recently concluded Skretting AquaForum, the first event of its kind.

The company has expanded its production facilities twice to follow the demand in the market and has also decided to sponsor World Aquaculture Society’s African Chapter as founding gold sponsor.

The 3-year program titled “Accelerating aquaculture development in Ghana through sustainable Nile Tilapia seed production and dissemination,” TiSeed, was launched and will address issues related with tilapia seed and improve productivity and profitability of tilapia cage and pond farming in Ghana. Key industry players as Aller Aqua Feed Ghana Ltd. will also participate on this project.

Cycle Farms, a French biotechnology company, has opened its first insect meal facility in Ghana. The company will also produce feed for tilapia farming using its own insect meal.

Ictyogroup has entered into a three-year partnership with Skretting Africa to combine health with feed and nutritional products for a better serve of tilapia farmers.

BioMar partnered with Agro World Group, a local distributor of BioMar based in Cameroon, to launch the first commercial scale cage fish farm in Congo. There are currently 20 cages, with an annual production capacity of 150 tons of tilapia and African catfish. The company expects to grow to 120 cages in two years.

The company has developed new diets to supply Egyptian tilapia farming and plans to export them throughout Africa.

A project led by Canada’s International Development Research Centre has concluded that insect meal inclusion in fish feeds improves growth rate and food safety in Kenya and Uganda fish farms.

Cargill and ADM have formally launched SoyVenTM, their new joint venture to provide soybean meal and oil for customers in Egypt. SoyVen owns and operates the National Vegetable Oil Company soy crush facility in Borg Al-Arab. The plant’s daily crush capacity has been doubled to 6,000 metric tons in order to meet increasing Egyptian demand for higher-protein soybean meal and for oil, reducing the need for imports.

Neovia has announced it will become the majority shareholder of Hi Nutrients, a leading player on the premix market in Nigeria. Through this acquisition, Neovia is gaining a foothold in a promising market in which the company wants to draw on Hi Nutrients’ premix market position to develop and roll out its international premix brand Wisium’s portfolio of products and services.