开放用于包括宠物食品和酒类的用途,也是水产养殖,家禽和猪行业的饲料产品
资料来源:美国谷物委员会
A new pest risk assessment has been approved by both the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), opening the door for U.S. sorghum to flow into the country for high-value uses including pet food and liquor as well as a feed product for the aquaculture, poultry and swine industries.
This opening follows nearly five years of collaborative efforts by the U.S. Grains Council (USGC), the United Sorghum Checkoff Program (USCP) and the National Sorghum Producers (NSP) and work with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS), as well as regulators and industry in Vietnam.
它还强调了向美国AG产品和美国农业集团之间的合作提供广泛限制的重要性,可以获得关于商品出口许多细节的专业知识。
“我们很高兴看到我们在越南的辛勤工作和合作,”USGC总裁兼首席执行官Ryan Legrand表示。“这是很长一段时间的来,但是如何与行业合作,政府的好东西可能会发生在美国商品中。”
“From an initial visit in 2015 by USCP and the USGC to discover the potential for sorghum in various marketplaces, to the development of a fish feeding trial followed by the release of very positive trial results, our organizations have worked to create opportunity for U.S. sorghum in Vietnam,” said Sorghum Checkoff Executive Director Florentino Lopez. “Of course, all this work would fall short without organizations like NSP that came in along the way to help steward the approvals needed to make it official. Our persistence has paid off, creating additional market opportunity for U.S. sorghum farmers.”
Work on the pest risk assessment – which outlines how U.S. sorghum must be handled to meet regulations in Vietnam – became even more critical after a vessel of sorghum originally destined for China in April 2018 was diverted to Vietnam but couldn’t be delivered because there was no pest risk assessment protocol in place.
该过程中最大的升力是建立行业的文件,以传递给APHI,随后由USCP和NSP领导的协议上的政策和计划制定工作。USGC和SORGHUM团体以及其成员以及在河内的FAS合作完成评估。
多年来,USGC和USCP一直在努力评估美国高粱的潜在市场,包括喂养试验,以测试普拉斯岛替代鲶鱼的高粱的活力,这是一个原产于东南亚饮食的大型鲶鱼种类。仅越南的年度鲶鱼产量是240万吨。
该组织还于二月举办了越南农业和农村发展(MARD)植物保护部门(PPD)的代表团,以与高粱汇票,FAS,APHIS和USDA的联邦粮食检验服务(FGIS)会面。除了参加若干会议外,代表团还参观了休斯顿港观察粮食加载并达成了农业综合企业代表。
USDA-APHIS与越南害虫风险评估批准的官方批准开启了越南PPD的门,以便在越南进口商要求高粱的进口许可证。
高粱对越南买家来说是有吸引力的,寻求将他们的能源来源多样化,并找到在当地气候中更好地储存的饲料来源。高粱是无麸质和非生物技术,对越南的利基行业也有吸引力,包括宠物食品行业。
在东南亚水产养殖部门建造的基础USGC,USCP和NSP是看到这一机会,使美国高粱出口市场多元化,并为美国高粱创造一个途径进入世界上最快的食品生产部门之一。
“这是组织如何共同努力为美国农民创造机会的优秀典范,”蒂姆·欲望,NSP和USCP首席执行官。“我们预计与越南最终用户建立持久的关系,我们期待有机会帮助满足他们的饲料需求。”
“这场胜利是一个清楚的例子 - 在行业和政府中如何共同努力 - 可以在各方面导致赢家,”Legrand说。“越南将能够满足其国家的粮食和饲料需求,美国高粱农民将获得有几个不同部门的市场,作为其产品的潜在最终用户。”
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