By Thai Newsroom Reporters
THE FEDERATION OF LIVESTOCK & Aquaculture today (Dec.25) pressed the government to quickly allow the import of a total 210,000 tonnes of soybean meal for use to spare enormous losses of marine livestock raising and animal feed manufacturing industries.
Failure to import the soybean meal by early next month would most certainly result in immense losses of the marine livestock raising and animal feed manufacturing industries, according to Sompop Uasongtham, secretary-general of the Thai Animal Feed Producers Association attached to the Federation of Livestock & Aquaculture.
The federation suggested that the government allow the import of the soybean meal which is to be processed into animal feed by the end of this month. The soybean meal import ban has been imposed to protect the local soybean meal manufacturers.
Four cargo ships laden with the 210,000-tonne soybean meal combinedly worth 4.2 billion baht will arrive in the Gulf of Thailand with the first one scheduled for Jan.3. will be obliged to pay one million baht in demurrage charge daily until the government allows for the unloading of the goods from the seagoing vessels, he said.
Whilst the local soybean meal manufacturers could produce only about 20,000 tonnes in a year, the marine livestock raising and animal feed industries need as much as five million tons of it yearly, according to the federation’s petition submitted to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin today.
Largely depending on the animal feed are the export industry processing marine livestock such as shrimps and fish, among others.
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Soybean and its flour. Top Photo: Thai Rath, Front Page photo: Matichon
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