The panelists consisted of experts in the field who touched upon a variety of topics. (Image source: Republic of Poland)

In November 2024, Polish panelists shared valuable insights with the stakeholders of Tanzania's poultry sector through a seminar titled 'Innovative Technologies in Poultry Farming and Meat Production

Co-organised and co-sponsored by the Embassy of Poland in Dar es Salaam and the Polish Association for Innovation in Agriculture, the seminar which was accompanied by a B2B session was aimed at advancing the country's economic prosperity and also proposed an interesting solution for smallholder farmers involving the collaborative usage of agrimachinery.

The panelists consisted of experts in the field who touched upon a variety of topics including veterinary care in poultry farming, feed production, slaughtering and cooling process. 

Beneficiary farmers were thankful for the support and affirmed their commitment to expanding their poultry farming initiatives. (Image source: Ministry of Information, Eritrea)

To ensure nationwide access to nutritious food, Eritrea's Ministry of Agriculture has distributed more than 161,000 chickens to poultry farmers at reasonable prices

Based on specific demands, the distribution targeted 203 poultry farmers across all regions. The breakdown includes more than 78,000 chickens allocated to farmers in the Central region, over 55,000 in the Southern region, more than 31,000 in the Anseba region, over 14,000 in the Northern Red Sea region, and approximately 1,200 in the Gash-Barka region.

Beneficiary farmers were thankful for the support and affirmed their commitment to expanding their poultry farming initiatives. They also pledged to contribute toward market stabilisation by increasing the availability of poultry products.

The HCS ProLife is a smart solution leading fresh drinking water through the hatching crates. (Image source: Giordano)

Giordano unveiled the HatchCargoSystem – ProLife (HCS ProLife) — a gamechanger in the early feeding phase of day-old-chicken — at last month's Eurotier Exhibition that took place in Hannover, Germany

The HCS ProLife is a unique sy stem that provides day-old chicken with fresh drinking water and feed inside the hatchery and during road transport. In addition to these internal drinking gutters, the trays are also equipped with feeding gutters, with both drinking and eating being positioned on either sides of the tray, providing maximum access to chicks.

Customers who wish to hatch the day-old-chicken will be provided with a smart tray that can be placed alternately between the crates and offers enough space for 74 hatching eggs. Having a unique framework, these trays allow the day-old-chicks to easily find their way onto the underlying crate immediately after hatching, where they have direct access to fresh drinking water and feed. The tray design allows the fresh drinking water to overflow from the above crate to the one below the tray, all the while ensuring a calm flow down and zero splashing. 

Extensive testing which has been carried out on the system has shown that the water quality remains within all current standards, right down up to and including the last crate. The system can be used in all existing incubators with very minor adjustments, allowing customer expectations to be met, while also keeping law and legistlations costs low. 

Henri Hekman, CEO of AgroCares (left) and Casper Niesink, Director Global Solutions and Services at Trouw Nutrition. (Image source: AgroCares)

AgroCares and Trouw Nutrition have announced the renewal of their NutriOpt On-site Adviser agreement, aiming to provide real-time, comprehensive nutritional insights that can directly benefit farms’ and feed mills’ operational efficiencies, economics and sustainability efforts

Combining Trouw Nutrition’s institutional knowledge and nutrient database with AgroCares’ proprietary portable NIR scanner technology, the partnership aims to provide real-time, comprehensive nutritional insights that can directly benefit farms’ and feed mills’ operational efficiencies, economics and sustainability efforts.

Leveraging Trouw Nutrition’s extensive nutrient knowledge and database, the NutriOpt On-Site Adviser can assess raw ingredients and finished feed for a specific species in less than five minutes. Species-specific nutrients are available for swine, ruminants, and poultry. New hardware developed and manufactured by AgroCares empowers farmers and feed producers to apply the nutrient profile of raw materials, silages and complete feed to make species-specific decisions.

Trusted by thousands of farmers and feed producers worldwide, the NutriOpt On-site Adviser helps producers meet market demands, such as information on the environmental footprint of food production. Henri Hekman, CEO of AgroCares, remarked that the technology draws on the innate strengths and market leadership of each partner.

The renewed contractual agreement reflects both partners’ commitment to make the equipment and nutritional data insights available to even more businesses worldwide. Ultimately, the collaboration aims to accelerate feed management, feed efficiency, sustainability and farm profitability for users, while aligning with both partners’ continued ambitions to invest in innovation and sustainability.

“We are excited to continue our partnership with AgroCares, whose technology has been instrumental in delivering the precision and reliability our customers expect. Our joint efforts have already made significant impacts in the industry to date, and we are committed to driving further innovations that benefit both our customers and the planet,” stated Hekman. “We are convinced that our species focused knowledge/ingredient profile offers the opportunity to further boost precision nutrition.”

NutriOpt Technologies was also one of the exhibitors at EuroTier 2024 which took place from 12-15 November in Hanover, Germany.