13th Five-Year Plan Sets Feed Output at 220 Million Tons, Compound Feed at 200 Million Tons

With just three weeks left before the end of 2015, as the closing year of the “12th Five-Year” Plan, China's feed industry has achieved more steady development over the past five years. With 2016 just around the corner and the “13th Five-Year” Plan about to begin, how can Chinese feed enterprises carve out a path of substantial development amid the severe economic situation and industry environment? Data will point the way for you.

In the “12th Five-Year” Plan for the feed industry, total feed output was expected to reach 200 million tons, with 50 feed enterprise groups each producing more than 500,000 tons annually, their feed output accounting for more than 50% of the national total; in terms of resource utilization, the plan called for an increase of 10 million tons in straw feed usage, with the treatment and utilization rate of feed straw reaching 50%; the level of high-quality processing and utilization of non-grain feed resources with large stockpiles, such as miscellaneous meal, distiller's grains and food processing by-products, was to be significantly raised. In energy conservation and emissions reduction, notable progress was to be made in the research, development and promotion of low-nitrogen, low-phosphorus and other environmentally friendly feed products; the use of minerals, trace elements and medicated feed additives in feed products was to become more standardized, and energy consumption per unit of output value in the feed industry was to decline steadily.

⟦NL> According to data, between 2010 and 2014, China's output of meat, eggs and milk grew by 9.8%, 4.7% and 2.5% respectively; the share of large-scale farming for hogs and dairy cows rose by 7.5% and 14.4%; feed output grew by 22%, while the number of enterprises fell by half; there were 31 enterprises with output exceeding one million tons, accounting for 52% of output. Although the final data for 2015 are not yet available, judging from the results published by the National Bureau of Statistics in the first half of the year (cumulative national feed output in the first half was 126.786 million tons, up 2.6% year on year; of which compound feed was 70.786 million tons and mixed feed was 29.942 million tons, up 2.19% and 1.52% year on year respectively), the closing year should end on a good note. China's feed industry has continued to strengthen its overall production capacity, with industrial quality improving at a faster pace; whether for the building of modern animal husbandry or the building of a strong feed industry power, a more solid foundation is now in place.

The “Five-Year Plan” is an important planning system guiding China's rapid and steady economic development, and the same is true for the feed industry. In the forthcoming “13th Five-Year” Plan for the feed industry, the following specific targets are set out:

Output target: 220 million tons, compound feed 200 million tons

Management target: improved systems, strong supervision, overall feed qualification rate of 96%

Industry target: 40 enterprise groups with one million tons, accounting for 60% of output

Additive target: additive output value to grow 50% over 2015; advantageous products such as microbial amino acids to remain stable; restricted small-variety amino acid products to be used more widely; production technology for enzyme preparations and microecological preparations to reach the international advanced level

Ecological target: nitrogen and phosphorus emissions per ton of feed used to be reduced by 5%; energy consumption per ton of pellet feed processing to be reduced by 10%

From the above targets, it is not hard to see that China's feed industry will move onto a path of steady development, while greater efforts will also be made to improve systems and ensure effective supervision, with quality and safety becoming the focus. Looking at the industry target, large and medium-sized feed enterprises will be the main direction for feed enterprise development; small enterprises need to plan their transformation at this stage, striving to bring themselves under the wing of large enterprises in search of protection and development. In the two areas of additives and ecology, feed enterprises need to continuously increase research and development efforts, formulate reasonable ratios, and through the rational use of additives and non-conventional raw materials, achieve the dual goals of nutrition and environmental protection; at the same time, research into feed processing technology will also become a key focus of enterprise work.