{"id":6083,"date":"2014-06-18T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2014\/06\/18\/nigerian-joint-venture\/"},"modified":"2014-06-18T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:16:00","slug":"nigerian-joint-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/nigerian-joint-venture\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian joint venture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Skretting Nigeria joint venture (60\/40 Nutreco\/Durante) will invest in the local production of extruded fish feed for Nigeria as well as the wider West African region.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is Africa&#8217;s largest economy and its second largest fish producer after Egypt. Nigeria produces more than 200,000 tonnes fish feed annually, mostly for catfish, and aquaculture production is growing by 5 to 10% per year.<\/p>\n<p>Knut Nesse, CEO, Nutreco, said: &#8220;This is Nutreco&#8217;s second foothold in Africa, after our investment in Egypt last year, and expands our share of fish feed for non-salmonid species. This fits perfectly in our strategy. We intend this joint venture to provide a base for further expansion in the fast growing West African fish feed market.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutreco has signed an agreement to enter into a joint venture with Durante, a leading supplier of fish feed in Nigeria and an already existing distribution partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-6083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6083"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=6083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}