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The Dairy sector in Malaysia

Ronald van Giessen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:01:08 +0000

DEiPAC bv was invited by the Dutch agricultural attache (ministry LNV) to study and give opinions and advice about the further development of the Dairy sector in Malaysia. We participated in a conference dealing with the dairy future of Malaysia. Malaysia now produces only 4% of total milk and milkproduct consumption under very variable tropical circumstances. Together with a specialist from WUR/ASG we traveled the country to get an idea about what possibilities there are and what is needed. We advised to move to a triple crossbreeding strategy, several management and feeding aspects, the prevention and treatment of diseases etc. Dutch Lady (Friesland Campina locally active) need more fresh milk locally produced because of increasing demand.

Ronald van Giessen

China-Shaanxi Province. Nov1.Start of the Qualifarm project

Ronald van Giessen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:52:31 +0000

Qualifarm project China:

Nov. 1 2009 WUR/ASG Lelystad The Netherlands and DEiPAC BV Amsterdam the Netherlands started the 2 year project: The development of high quality, sustainable dairy and swine farming in Shaanxi province of China in close cooperation with Northwest A&F University/Animal science and technology in Yangling, BESUN Agricultural Industry group (swine integration) and the Animal Husbandry bureau of Weinan county.

The Qualifarm project is facilitated by EVD the Netherlands.

Shortly DEiPAC will inform you about developments in the project

The DEiPAC China team.

荷兰Jan Togtema博士到我院与相关教师座谈

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:05:30 +0000

2008年11月11日上午，来自荷兰的Jan Togtema博士在动科学院一楼会议室就猪、牛养殖管理与我院相关的养猪、养牛专家进行了座谈，座谈会由昝林森教授主持。

Jan Togtema博士首先介绍自己的教育及工作经历，并根据在中国的考察情况，给大家综合介绍了我国（主要是陕西、河南地区）畜牧生产现状及存在的普遍问题。交谈中，Jan Togtema博士还专门介绍了荷兰在畜牧养殖方面的一些比较先进的经验，并希望今后在人员培训及项目合作等方面能与我校有更加深入的交流，特别在管理软件方面，荷兰方面可以提供相关的技术支持，以促进我校在畜牧养殖管理方面更快速的发展。

昝林森教授感谢Jan Togtema博士在农高会期间到杨凌来与我院师生交流。在谈到合作方面，昝教授指出可以通过郑惠玲老师与之建立的友好关系，在相互深入了解的基础上提出下一步合作的相关事项。最后，昝教授邀请Jan Togtema博士有机会再次来到学校与广大师生交流，并希望相互间能够展开更加深入的交流与合作。

The Bulgarian dairy sector

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:14:42 +0000

DEiPAC and the Dutch Animal Health Office = GD (www.gezondedieren.nl ) are involved in a project initiated by the Dutch ministry of economic affairs to develop the Bulgarian dairy sector chain wide. In a few years the Bulgarian sector should comply with EU standards and should offer dairy farmers in the rural area’s a healthy future and opportunities for young people.

The Bulgarian government has classified existing dairy farms (presently about 95.000) in three categories.
Category 1 dairy farms are allowed to produce for the EU market. They follow the hygiene standards of the Bulgarian government and have a somatic cell count <400. There are about the 3000 dairy farmers in category 1.
The category 2 dairy farms (about 3000) will qualify after minor changes. Most of the existing dairy farms are in category 3, are very small and are not allowed to produce for the EU market. Besides that they get a much lower milk price. Because of that there is basically no future for them in the dairy business with all the related social problems.

In close cooperation DEiPAC and GD have recently produced a report (inception report) that includes strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). About 30 dairy farms in different regions are selected to set up a pilot/demonstration program. The Ministry of Agriculture in Bulgaria will support a detailed communication program for Bulgarian dairy farmers (appr. 95.000). We have visited numerous dairy farms in all categories in different regions of Bulgaria. It has become clear that for farmers the economic arguments are a motive for producing raw milk of a quality that measures with the EU standard.
Also Bulgarian dairy farmers must learn that nowadays the Bulgarian government will only facilitate and guide them. Nevertheless the initiatives for improvement and innovation as well as realization is the farmers own responsibility.

Seasnail hatchery (strombus gigas) in the Caribbean

Ronald van Giessen — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:55:38 +0000

Strombus Gigas, the giant caribbean seasnail (locally conch or karko), ages and ages. The local food is almost extinct because of intensive catch and high demand. The conch is placed on the CITES list of endangered species. We have made a proposal to start a hatchery and growout on Bonaire. Young conch can be used for restocking purposes locally and grown conch can be used as fine food for specialised restaurants and local people to prevent poaching from the wild. We are looking for investors in this project: profitable on the lomger term. For information contact us.

More healthy fatty acids in milk

Ronald van Giessen — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:18:00 +0000

DEiPAC experts are involved in developing economic dairy farmpractices to increase healthy fatty acids in milk: far more CLA and far less saturated fatty acids . The addition of linseed, linseedoils, sunflowersilage, sunfloweroils and algea are a.o. products and systems involved in a project in the northern part of the Netherlands (waddenregio) to produce yearround more healthy milk.

The production of edible mushrooms and high protein forage from surplus biomass

Ronald van Giessen — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:11:31 +0000

In Surinam( using rice straw, elephantgrass and bananaleaves), Colombia (using coffeewastes and bananaleaves) and Zambia (using waterhyacinth) on substrates from surplus biomass not edible for cattle and swine edible mushrooms are grown. The high protein surplus substrate after harvesting the mushrooms is perfect forage for cattle and swine. DEiPAC is involved in these concepts.

Algea: first algea congres in the Netherlands

Ronald van Giessen — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:56:21 +0000

May 27 2008 the first congress on the future of algea was held (www.algencongres.nl). Science, Production/processing and applications were adressed by many keynotespeakers. The efficient production of biodiesel from algea is far away but CO2 compensation is a topic. The use of several algea produced in an open or closed environment systems offer many promising opportunities for feed and food. For dairy cattle algea as a feedadditive can increase the amount of unsaturated fatty acids in milk. There are legal presently to feed algea to cattle but these are expected to be lifted. Ingrepro introduced the algea ‘Power farms’ principle. Ronald van Giessen

Your Partner in Farm Animal Business

admin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:24:53 +0000

DEiPAC is your world wide independent partner in integrated solutions and strategic concepts from feed to food in animal production. DEiPAC is a group of Dutch senior experts in all fields of the animal production chain. We have many experiences in the field worldwide. Animal and public health, welfare, the environment, safety and economics are the integral parts of our solutions. A partnership with DEiPAC means safe steps forward chain wide.