China Studying Method to Reduce Soybean Imports, Report Says
Chinese researchers are developing a way to produce livestock feed from factory exhaust gas in a bid to reduce the country’s reliance on imported soybeans, according to a Ministry of Science and Technology newspaper, Caixin reported Nov. 3. The process…
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would synthesize animal feed protein from “simple carbon and nitrogen sources,” the report said, and could decrease U.S. leverage in a trade war by reducing Chinese dependency on U.S. soybeans. The report added that China is the world’s largest importer of soybeans at about 100 million tons per year.