China’s Feed Mills May Double Distiller Grain Imports

Bloomberg Business Week
March 22, 2010, 8:11 AM EDT

March 22 (Bloomberg) -- China’s feed mills may double imports this year of so-called dried distillers grains with solubles, a by-product from turning corn into ethanol, according to participants at a conference in Xiamen.

Purchases of the feed additive, known as DDGS, may increase to 1.5 million metric tons from 650,000 tons last year, said Xu Lihuan, vice president of Dacheng Food Ltd., at a conference organized by Shanghai JC Intelligence Co. Imports will exceed 1 million tons, said Li Qiang, managing director of Shanghai JC.

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