Japan's ban on meat and bone meal may increase the consumption of soybean meal

Introduction: earlier this week, Japan announced that it would extend the current ban on meat and bone meal for ruminant animals, including other animals, after Japan recently confirmed the first case of BSE The ban is expected to increase demand for other feed products, led by soybean meal Back in 1995, meat and bone meal was banned from ruminants in Japan But recently, Japan decided to temporarily extend the ban to include other animals Japan currently uses 300000 to 400000 tons of meat and bone meal a year, and this demand will now be replaced by soybean meal, rapeseed meal, fish meal and / or corn bran In particular, informed people expect the ban to become permanent "I think the vast majority of demand will go to soybean meal," said a Japanese company's trader Thursday In 2000 / 01, Japan imported 4.84 million tons of soybeans, which is expected to be the same in 2001 / 02 But in terms of soybean meal, the country imported 650000 tons of soybean meal in 2000 / 01, and the U.S Department of agriculture predicted in its September report that the figure would rise to 700000 tons So far, the actual export volume of American soybean meal to Japan in 2001 / 02 is 160400 tons, 45% higher than that of the same period last year Soybean orders increased 31% from the same period last year to 639500 tons, but only a small part of them were shipped (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: