May 30, 2008

DSM partners Shennong to supply pork and premix in China's Yunnan province

DSM, the world's largest producer of vitamins for animal feed, is to enter into a strategic partnership with Yunnan Shennong Agriculture Group to supply its Optimum Vitamin Nutrition (OVN) Premix in Yunnan Province in South West China.

The new arrangement also covers the production of pork in Yunnan Province, and a new manufacturing facility will come on line at Shennong Food Industry Park by August.

The objective is to produce 500,000 tonnes of OVN feed per year within three years.

DSM already has a strategic agreement with Conti Chia Tai Group in Guangdong for the production on OVN eggs.

''The OVN approach allows closer control of vitamin and trace element nutrition and can be tailored for egg, poultry meat, pork, fish and milk production,'' comments Dr. J. Nathan Bird, VP Animal Nutrition & Health, China.

Yunnan Shennong Agriculture Group has been through an extensive HACCP qualification programme for its pork production process.