Housing and equipment Feed and nutrition Feed and nutrition Why are pigs in Africa struggling to meet the growth rates achieved in Europe? Why do pigs in Africa sometimes struggle to reach 100kg in five months? And does this matter to the profitability of your farm? 23 August 2019 11 minute read By: Yemi Adesina Africa Many African pig farms can only afford to provide pigs with industrial waste or by-products such as palm kernel cake, corn bran, wheat bran and some maize and soya meal Our Partners Lallemand Lanxess Hamlet Protein Thermo Fisher Scientific Axcentive Yemi Adesina CEO of Pristine Integrated Farm Resource Ltd Yemi is a pig farmer based in Nigeria and is the CEO of Pristine Integrated Farm Resource Ltd. He also runs training courses for both new and more experienced pig farmers. More from this author More Articles View all Leman Swine Conference: Controlling PEDV with bioexclusion, biocontainment and biomanagement Disease Managing disease Herd management 24 April 2024 5 minute read AASV: Paul Yeske shares research on how to use soybean meal during a swine respiratory challenge SPONSOR Disease Notifiable diseases PRRS 23 April 2024 7 minute read Soybean meal as a tactical or prescriptive ingredient when SRD challenges the herd Speed matters: Fast protein sources result in better protein utilization SPONSOR Herd management Feed and nutrition 22 April 2024 6 minute read Protein kinetics is all about the speed of protein digestion. Our Partners Lallemand Lanxess Hamlet Protein Thermo Fisher Scientific Axcentive