NEWS 14 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE August 2022 Blumar and Veramaris with the collaboration of Skretting are working on an innovative feed protocol to achieve better health, welfare and quality outcomes for Atlantic salmon. Nutreco has received a US$4.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The funds will be used to roll-out sustainable feed mills in Africa. It’s a global first for Blumar: an innovative program that will improve the quality and nutrition of their Atlantic salmon. Blumar and Veramaris with the collaboration of Skretting are working on an innovative feed protocol rich in both EPA & DHA Omega-3 using Veramaris ASC-MSC certified sustainable algal oil. The program consists of two components: introducing Veramaris algal oil into the salmon’s feed supplied by Skretting; and following Veramaris’ Optimum Omega Nutrition (OON) guidelines to meet the nutritional requirements of Atlantic salmon for better health, welfare and quality outcomes. Thanks to innovations of this kind, Blumar seeks to achieve its environmental goals, and continue to improve sustainability across the entire value chain, decreasing dependency on wild-capture forage fish for Omega 3. This partnership will show that innovations like Veramaris algal oil can be implemented along the value chain at speed, to improve Atlantic salmon nutrition and provide the consumers with a product that is suited to human health, helps fish welfare and is raised within planetary boundaries. Veramaris’ algal oil contains the highest amount Blumar and Veramaris innovate to achieve better outcomes for Atlantic salmon Nutreco receives $4.8M grant to roll out feed mills Nutreco, part of the SHV group of companies, and a global animal nutrition leader based in the Netherlands, has received a US$4.8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant is to accelerate the implementation of localized, sustainable complete feed production in sub-Saharan Africa, driving forward Nutreco’s purpose of Feeding the Future. The US$4.8 million grant will directly fund 21 Hendrix4U complete feed production projects initially in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Uganda. Hendrix4U provides a ‘factory-in-a-box’ for rural areas ensuring access to quality compound feed production for small-scale producers, in a financially sustainable way. This is one of the first investments from the foundation in the animal feed space - a powerful endorsement of the extensive work done to date by Nutreco. Since 2018, the business has tried and tested the implementation of 16 Hendrix4U projects, demonstrating its critical impact for producers. The 37 Hendrix4U projects in total, which all include a full-service package for small-scale feed production, will not only improve local feed value chains, but also critically improve the profitability of over 15.000 poultry and dairy producers. Nutreco partners and supports organisations around the planet to ensure it can play its role in Feeding the Future. Across the African continent, Nutreco is active in over 40 countries with teams present in 15 countries, with over 500 people dedicated to both aquaculture and animal nutrition.
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