Recently, the 10t/h high-end aquatic feed project constructed by RICHI Machinery and invested by India officially started construction. The total investment in the project is US$1.52 million, which includes the construction of 6 new high-end aquatic expanded feed production lines, all of which adopt full-line automated production. The main building units of the project include the main production workshop, raw material warehouse, finished product warehouse, boiler room and power distribution system and other facilities.

The project is expected to be completed and reach production by the end of August 2024. It will achieve an annual total output value of more than 40 million US dollars and create more than 60 new jobs. After the project is completed, it will become the largest local feed production and sales base, radiating and driving the development of grain planting and processing enterprises in He County and its surrounding areas, with significant social and economic benefits.

Background of the project：

With the sustained and healthy development of Senegal’s economy and the continuous improvement of people’s living standards, the demand for meat is also increasing. Natural breeding can no longer meet the needs of life. Therefore, the breeding industry must be vigorously developed.

The development of the breeding industry is inseparable from the development of the feed processing industry. In order to improve the level of national feed science and technology, promote the development of local planting and breeding industries, and prosper the regional economy. Combined with local development, the project to build a feed production and processing base in Senegal has broad prospects and a good market foundation.

• Construction content: The project plans to invest a total investment of US$680,000 to build a feed production and processing base with an annual production of 60,000 tons.
• Benefit analysis: Combination of retail and bulk sales. Sales channels can be broadened through order-based distribution from large farms and supporting retail stores in towns and villages to open up the market. After the project is completed, it can achieve annual operating income of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a return on investment can be achieved in 3-5 years. In addition, feed processing and production is an industry that requires raw materials and labor, which can provide employment for some local people and increase sales channels for crops.
• Preferential policy for local investment promotion of the project: Investment will be provided based on the actual situation. Customers of this project can enjoy the relevant land policies, financial support and incentive policies, tax preferential policies, etc. in Senegal, and implement the “one enterprise, one policy” discussion system based on the customer’s investment intensity. .

Recently, following the 5-ton grass feed pellet production line in Argentina, the 10-ton cattle feed factory project in Brazil and the 15-ton hay feed factory project in the United States, another feed production line project has been put into operation. This is the Honduras 12T/H multi-functional feed factory, which is mainly used for Produces layer, broiler and livestock feed. The varieties produced include pellet feed and mash feed.

This multifunctional feed production line project in Honduras has a construction area of 2,500 square meters and mainly builds 3 modern feed production lines. Among them, the production workshop is 1,500 square meters, the raw material warehouse is 600 square meters, and the finished product warehouse is 400 square meters. It is equipped with boiler rooms, power distribution rooms, etc.; pulse dust collectors, bucket elevators, distribution plates, grease addition systems and other equipment are purchased.

Recently, RICHI signed a 3-5 tons per hour rabbit hay feed production line project with a Cuban customer. The customer owns a rabbit farm and breeds 3,000 rabbits. Therefore, the customer invested US$220,000 to build a rabbit feed production line (including silage storage warehouse and hay storage warehouse) in the breeding farm, with an output value of one million US dollars.

Market prospects of rabbit meat

Rabbit meat is a nutritious food with health care functions. Rabbit meat is a nutritional and health food recognized by the World Food and Nutrition Association as “three highs and three lows” (“three highs and three lows” refers to “high protein, high lysine, and high digestibility”). “Low fat, low cholesterol, low calories”) has become increasingly popular among urban and rural consumers.

Rabbit breeding characteristics and benefit analysis

• Breeding characteristics: “short, flat and fast”. Short breeding cycle: it only takes about 70 days for a commercial rabbit to grow to 2.5 kilograms from birth to slaughter; the breeding risk is small, the feeding cost is lower than that of other animals, the benefits are seen quickly, and the rabbits have strong fecundity, and each breeding rabbit can use up to Artificial insemination takes 45 days to produce a litter, with an average of 8 rabbits per litter. Farmers can breed a large number of high-quality rabbits in a short period of time and earn substantial profits quickly. In addition, rabbits are nocturnal animals. If the feeding time is reasonably arranged in the evening and morning, it does not take up time for farm work, so it is very suitable for large rural households and farmers to raise them.
• Benefit analysis: If a breeding rabbit produces 7 litters per year, 8 rabbits per litter (maximum 13 rabbits), and a survival rate of 95%, then 50 commercial rabbits will be produced per breeding rabbit per year. The total cost of a commercial rabbit from birth to 70 days when it grows to 5 pounds for slaughter is less than US$5 (feed cost + epidemic prevention cost of 1 yuan + rabbit cost). The price of commercial rabbits is calculated at 10 yuan/jin (the current market price is 10-16 yuan/jin). A breeding rabbit can bring hundreds of dollars of net profit to farmers in a year. If qualified farmers use idle chicken houses to breed on a moderate scale, they can obtain more considerable economic benefits.

Since October 2023 to now, the 10T/H animal feed production line in Zimbabwe has been under construction. This high-efficiency and safe series chicken feed production line with an annual output of 30,000 tons is a key local agricultural project. Since the start of construction, various departments of the local government have worked closely with the construction party to grasp the progress. At present, the project construction is proceeding in an orderly manner.

At the construction site of this project, large machinery is leveling the land, trucks and tower cranes are running back and forth, and the neatly planned site is busy and orderly.

This 10t/h feed mill plant project covers an area of 1,200 square meters and has a total investment of US$750,000. The project includes the construction of the main workshop, silo system, warehouse and office and living areas.

In addition to meeting the feed production requirements of the project, the project is also designed based on the surrounding regional conditions, while taking into account requirements such as energy conservation, environmental protection, and high efficiency, to build a new feed production enterprise with a demonstration role in modern new agriculture.

Today, the 15t/h cattle and sheep feed production line constructed by RICH Machinery has been completed and accepted and will be put into production soon. This project, a livestock and poultry feed and animal health product production project, started construction in July 2023. After 7 months, the project has completed the completion acceptance work and is expected to be put into trial production in mid-May 2024.
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Walking into this feed company, the modern production equipment is eye-catching. In the workshop, workers are doing final finishing work and equipment debugging.

This 15 t/h livestock and poultry feed and animal health products production project has a total investment of US$1.38 million, covering an area of 13 acres, with a newly built 22.8-meter main workshop, a finished product warehouse and a raw material warehouse, and two 1,500-ton silos. As well as administrative office buildings, product research and development centers, etc. After the project is officially put into production, it will not only provide green, safe and high-quality feed for the local breeding industry to meet the supply needs of local breeding farms, but will also be sold to surrounding areas.
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According to the project information provided by the RICHI engineering team, the feed mill’s maximum annual output will reach 60,000 tons, and the actual output is expected to reach about 50,000-55,000 tons.

Recently, RICHI Machinery signed a 10 tons per hour flax straw pellet plant project in Canada. This project covers an area of 1,500 square meters, with a construction area of 1,700 square meters. It has a new production workshop, office and living area, warehouse and raw material storage yard.

The construction area of the production workshop is 800 square meters, and the warehouse is 500 square meters. The designed production scale is an annual straw consumption of 12 100,000 tons, with an annual output of 100,000 tons of straw pellet fuel.

The office buildings of this flax straw pellet machine plant project use electric heating in winter, but the production workshops do not provide heating. The total project investment is US$950,000.

Recently, RICHI signed a 1-ton straw pellet production line project in Australia. The pellets processed in this project will be mainly used as fuel for the customer’s tire factory for its own use. The project covers an area of 451 square meters, with a total construction area of 858.7 square meters.

It is built using the original factory buildings and is mainly divided into production workshops, warehouses, comprehensive office buildings, etc. After the project is fully completed, it can produce 2500t/a of biomass straw pellets.

The winter office heating of this project is provided by a pellet stove, and the drying process of the 1t/h straw pelleting plant project is provided by a hot air stove (the fuel is shaped straw pellets). The total investment in the project is US$120,000.

Recently, the Iranian feed mill expansion project is under construction. It is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2024 and officially put into production in the third quarter, adding 60,000 tons of production capacity. This project is the fourth feed factory project undertaken by RICHI Machinery, following projects such as a 2-ton fish feed production line, a 5-ton chicken feed production line, and a 5-ton puffed feed production line.

The project covers an area of 10 acres and the project investment is US$760,000. The planning and design is based on meeting the feed production requirements of the project, and is designed based on the surrounding regional conditions. The unique temperament of the camp is selected while taking into account requirements such as energy conservation, environmental protection, and high efficiency. The goal is to build a new feed production enterprise with a demonstration role in modern new agriculture.

Recently, the 12T/H floating fish and 8T/H sinking fish feed production lines undertaken by RICHI in Thailand passed the environmental impact assessment and are about to start construction.

Construction content of the project: The main buildings include production workshops, raw material warehouses, finished product warehouses, machine repair rooms, boiler rooms, etc., including 2 puffed fish feed production lines and 1 pellet fish feed production line. The main raw and auxiliary materials are soybean meal, cotton meal, Rapeseed meal, flour, corn, distiller’s grains, peanut meal, soybean oil, minerals, vitamins, etc. The production scale is 40,000 tons/year of pellet fish feed and 60,000 tons/year of puffed fish feed. The total project investment is US$1.3 million.

The environmental protection measures for this project are as follows:

• Wastewater treatment measures:
  • One third-level septic tank treats domestic sewage. Volume 31m3. The desulfurization and denitrification water generated during the production process of this project is recycled and not discharged. The living area of this project relies on the client company’s dormitories, office buildings, and canteens.
  • The domestic wastewater generated is treated by the feed company’s third-level septic tanks and third-level grease traps, and then discharged into the municipal sewage pipe network and eventually into the local sewage Treatment plant for further processing. The desulfurization and denitrification water is recycled and not discharged.
• Waste gas treatment measures:
  • The dust waste gas generated during raw material crushing and other processes is treated with a cyclone dust collector + pulse bag dust collector and then discharged to high altitude through two exhaust pipes with a height of 40m.
  • The dust waste gas generated during drying, cooling and other processes is treated with a cyclone dust collector and then discharged to high altitude through four exhaust pipes with a height of 21m. Dust ≤120mg/m3.
  • The dust generated by this project mainly comes from the crushing and mixing of various raw materials during the production process. The customer company sets up dust collection hoods at each dust-generating point in the crushing section of this project, and discharges the dust through the air inlet into the cyclone dust collector + pulse bag dust collector. The treated exhaust gas passes through two 40-meter-high exhaust pipes.
  • The top of the workshop is discharged to high altitude; after the exhaust gas from the drying and cooling section is processed by the cyclone dust collector, it is discharged to high altitude through two 21-meter-high exhaust pipes.
  • This project is equipped with a 20t/h coal-fired boiler. After the boiler exhaust gas is dusted by a pulse bag dust collector, alkaline desulfurization, and non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) denitrification, it is discharged through a 45-meter-high chimney. Online pollutant monitoring equipment has been installed at the boiler exhaust gas outlet. Pulse bag dust collector is used for dust removal, lime gypsum method for desulfurization, and non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) denitrification. The exhaust gas is discharged through a 45m high exhaust pipe.
• Noise treatment measures:
  • Take sound insulation and vibration reduction measures for major noise equipment, and make full use of the sound insulation of the factory building. Daytime: ≤65dB(A), nighttime: ≤55dB(A). The noise during the operation period of this project mainly comes from crushers, various fans, mixers and other equipment.
  • By selecting low-noise equipment, the project reasonably optimized the layout, placed the main noise source equipment indoors, and adopted sound insulation and vibration reduction measures to reduce the impact of noise on the surrounding environment.
• ​Solid waste treatment measures:
  • Employees’ domestic waste is collected in designated trash bins and transported by sanitation trucks for proper disposal. The dust collected by the dust collector in the production workshop of this project is reused in production.
  • The construction unit will send the boiler ash and smoke collected by the dust collector to other units as road construction materials to achieve comprehensive utilization. Domestic waste and non-recyclable packaging materials generated by the project will be sent to the domestic waste landfill for disposal by the industrial park where it is located. The project uses NaOH desulfurization instead of the lime method proposed during the environmental impact assessment.
  • The sodium sulfate produced dissolves in water and no desulfurization gypsum is produced. The dust collected by the dust collector in the production workshop is reused in production. The generated cinder is sold to cement grinding stations or used as paving materials; the desulfurized gypsum is handed over to nearby environmentally friendly brick factories for brick making.