According to the Department of Livestock, the biggest difficulty currently facing the animal feed industry is that the domestic raw material production capacity to serve the industry is still limited, and heavily dependent on imported raw materials. It is estimated that imported animal feed ingredients account for about 65% of the total domestic demand for animal feed ingredients.
According to the Department of Livestock, imported animal feed ingredients account for about 65% of the total domestic demand for animal feed ingredients.
The Department of Livestock (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) said that currently, the whole country has 269 complete mixed industrial animal feed production facilities with a total design capacity of 43.2 million tons. Of these, 90 factories are owned by FDI enterprises (accounting for 33.5% in quantity; and 51.3% in design capacity) and 179 factories are owned by domestic enterprises (accounting for 66.5% in number). quantity and 48.7% of design capacity).
The country's animal feed output reached 18.8 million tons in 2018, increasing to 20.8 million tons in 2022 (average annual growth rate for the whole period reaches 2.6%/year). During this period, the actual output structure of animal feed is changing according to the trend of gradually increasing the proportion of FDI enterprises (from 59.8% in 2018 to 62.5% in 2022) and gradually decreasing the proportion of FDI enterprises (from 59.8% in 2018 to 62.5% in 2022). domestic enterprises (from 40.2% in 2018 to 37.5% in 2022). It is expected that in 2023 the structure of animal feed output will continue to change according to the above trend, partly because Masan Group (animal feed output accounts for about 6% of total national output) has sold all Animal feed segments for DeHeus Company (Netherlands).
Also according to the Department of Livestock, the total demand for concentrate feed (corn, soybean meal, bran, fishmeal...) of the entire livestock industry in Vietnam is about 33 million tons/year, mainly used for pig farming. and poultry. To meet this demand, our country needs a huge amount of refined feed ingredients, while the country can only supply about 35% of the total demand, equivalent to 13 million tons/year, the rest comes from imported sources.
The main products of the farming industry that can be used as animal feed include 4.6 million tons of corn seeds; 4.5 million tons of bran (from 42.8 million tons of rice); 2.5 million tons of dried cassava, cassava residue (equivalent to 10.5 million tons of fresh cassava),...
Compared to the world, Vietnam's corn and soybean production accounts for a very small percentage (equivalent to 0.4% and 0.02%), not to mention the low quality and productivity that have caused the price of domestically produced corn to rise. difficult to compete with world corn prices. However, Vietnam has an advantage in rice production (accounting for 8.4% of world output).
In fact, paddy and rice have the ability to partially replace corn as animal feed without affecting the productivity and quality of livestock. However, when replacing corn with paddy and rice, economic efficiency decreased by 33.2% because the price of paddy and rice was higher than the price of corn. To be able to effectively replace corn with rice and rice, the price of rice and rice must be at least 2.7 - 26.4% lower than the price of corn.
In addition, Vietnam also has a number of products and by-products from seafood processing, livestock, and poultry slaughtering (fish fat, fishmeal,...) used as animal feed but the quantity is not significant. tell. For main additives and dietary supplements (vitamins, amino acids...), Vietnam has to import up to 80% because our country does not have production technology, and the consumer market is small and cannot attract investment. , but only produces small amounts of mineral supplements, probiotics, and herbs.
According to the assessment of the Department of Livestock, in general, the biggest difficulty currently facing the animal feed industry is that the capacity to produce domestic animal feed ingredients is limited and heavily dependent on imported raw materials.
In the period 2018 - 2022, our country imported from 18.6 to 22.8 million tons of animal feed ingredients; Import value fluctuates around 6 - 8.9 billion USD (in 2021 and 2022 alone, import value will increase sharply mainly due to rising prices of animal feed ingredients). The main imported raw materials include corn, all kinds of oil cake, wheat, animal protein, etc. It is estimated that imported animal feed materials account for about 65% of the total domestic demand for animal feed materials.
(Bao Moi)