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Aug 07, 2014
This week, the American Soybean Association’s World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (ASA/WISHH) program consultant Tim Cummings traveled to Ghana and Cote d’ Ivoire to meet with local partners concerning market development opportunities within each country. In Ghana, Cummings met with multiple private sector partners, including Seaboard, a Kansas City-based agribusiness, to discuss enhanced opportunities for U.S. soybean meal imports into the commercial feed sector as well as to discuss activities related to the recent feed and poultry market assessment. Seaboard imported 4,000 metric tons of U.S. soybean meal into Ghana earlier this year.
In Cote d’ Ivoire, Cummings met with representatives of the national school feeding initiative to further develop a pilot program that will include the use of U.S. sourced textured soy protein. If the pilot is successful, they will need hundreds of tons of textured soy protein to feed their school kids. For the Ivorians, it is a question of cost: TSP is cheaper than canned fish. Funds for this trip were provided by the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Emerging Markets Program (EMP) and Foreign Market Development Program (FMD).
