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The Test Base of Feed Industry Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China & National Pig Farming Technology Innovation Center (North China Branch) & Animal Testing Base of China Agricultural University is now complete and open for business in Zhuozhou, Hebei Province of China. 

The opening ceremony on July 25 welcomed more than 200 government officials, academia, research and development stakeholders, and industry representatives to present the new base and learn more about its strategic roles in education, research, innovation, and training for the agri-food industry and in building national food security in China.

Vice provincial governor of Hebei Province Shi Qingshuang, China Agricultural University president Sun Qixin, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Li Defa, Professor Yao Bin, Professor Hou Shuisheng, Professor Ren Fazheng, Professor Qiao Shiyan, and execs of Da Bei Nong Group, FAMSUN Group, and JiangSu Huali Co., Ltd. were invited to inaugurate the base together.

An integrated facility

The 73,333-square-meter base includes nursery houses, fattening houses, a feed mill, a slaughterhouse, and a research-office building. With the initial 150 grandparent sows and 500 parent sows, the facility will be able to reproduce enough pigs for research and testing purposes. Feed demand for cultivating sows and pigs in different growing phases at the base will come from the 20t/d feed mill.  

The feed facility, with equipment and construction supplied by FAMSUN, is equipped with the latest equipment and most advanced technologies, such as the new generation hammermill, energy-efficient pellet mill, innovative counterflow cooler, and FAMSUN whole-plant automation system, as well as convenient digital services for improving operational efficiency. Some of the equipment was donated by FAMSUN outright and some were sold at a significantly discounted price. 

With the assistance of the automatic system, intelligent equipment, and digital services, even a single person can qualify all production tasks in the feed mill, from raw material receiving to finished products warehousing. The less human attendance production help improve feed quality and reduce bio-insecurity risk to the animals. Besides producing feed for breeding pigs, the feed mill also opens opportunities for academia and the feed industry to make trails on innovative formulas, novel feed ingredients, and new processing technologies.