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The Philippines Department of Agriculture (DA) will complete two facilities worth PHP 100 million (~US$1.8 million; PHP 10 = US$0.18) that will produce protein-enriched copra meal (PECM), a less expensive animal feed ingredient, by the fourth quarter of 2023, The Philippine Inquirer reported.

European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis and Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski met with Ukrainian officials and representatives of five EU member states which border Ukraine and are affected by the increase in Ukrainian agricultural imports.

The Official Veterinary Services (SVO) of Greece reported an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) on a domestic pig farm on April 26.

Japans Sumitomo Corp. will begin selling insect-based feed for farmed fish in Japan later this year, becoming the countrys first large trading house to do so.

In recent years there has been an increasing demand for solutions to help process meat waste material into a high-value, edible protein.

Aviagen® KFT has announced the induction of the latest members into the companys exclusive Ross® 420 and Ross 150 Clubs, honoring the top-performing poultry farmers in Romania and Moldova.

The Moroccan government is planning to import 1 million head of cattle and sheep for the upcoming Eid Al Adha festival at the end of June, Morocco World News reported.

Agribusiness consultancy AgRural said Brazilian farmers have harvested 92% of the soybean area planted for the 2022/23 season as of last Thursday, an increase of six percentage points from the previous week, Nasdaq reported.

US university researchers at Georgia Tech, the University of Arkansas System, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Fort Valley State University in Georgia were awarded a US$5 million grant to increase use of artificial intelligence and robotics in chicken processing to reduce waste in deboning and detect pathogens.

The US is buying more soybeans from Brazil after a drop in prices there due to abundant local supplies, with two ships carrying a total of 79,150 tonnes of Brazilian product on the way to the US in the coming days, Nasdaq reported.