SINGAPORE, 20 JULY 2022 – Asia Sustainable Foods (ASF) Platform, a wholly-owned company of Temasek, and CREMER announced today that their joint venture, Cremer Sustainable Foods (CSF), officially opened its first plant-based protein contract manufacturing facility in Singapore. The facility is located within LOGOS Food21, a high-specification food production building in the Tuas Food Zone. CSF is one of the few contract manufacturers for alternative proteins located in Asia. As demand … [Read more...] about Asia Sustainable Foods Platform and CREMER Joint Venture’s First Contract Manufacturing Facility Brings Alternative Protein Closer to Asian Consumers
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Breeding mung bean for plant-based protein market
Researchers and plant breeders at Iowa State University are collaborating to develop a new crop to sustain a plant-based protein market. They aim to create new mung bean varieties, considered new crops in the United States. In Asia, farmers have been growing mung beans for centuries. Farmers in the Midwestern US look at the crop, a high-yield and high-protein mung bean, as a means to add diversity to their land management as well as improve crop farming income. The mung is a legume … [Read more...] about Breeding mung bean for plant-based protein market
Olam secures loan to fight food insecurity
SINGAPORE — Olam Agri, the food, feed, and fibre agribusiness arm of Olam Group, has secured a $200 million loan from The International Finance Corp., the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. Olam shared the loan will finance the company’s purchase of wheat, maize, and soy from Canada, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, and the United States. The commodities be transported to Olam’s processing operations and customers in developing countries, … [Read more...] about Olam secures loan to fight food insecurity
