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DAIRY FARMING

The additive is a resource that helps “During a period of low milk price to treat a large volume of silage. This
us – irrespective of the harvesting back in 2017, we actually switched to a means you are dealing with small bot-
conditions - to proactively improve cheaper brand of additive but noticed tles of additive that can be ready mixed,
the palatability of our grass silage a significant drop off in feed intakes as rather than hauling barrels across the
and therefore supportinghigh forage the palatability of silage decreased,” farm.
intakes in our cows. concludes Marcus. Find out more about our ltra low vol-
As soon as we switched back to ume applicator for liquid application
Consistently better silage Ecosyl, intakes increased again. So, “I can easily provide contractors with
with Ecosyl whilst it was a more expensive product a generous, supply of additive at the
it more than makes up for this through start of a day’s silaging, which they can
Whilst there are a large range of ad- increased feed utilisation.
ditives available on the market, Marcus keep safely in their vehicles. I don’t
has been impressed with Ecosyl’s per- Silage additive convert have to worry about them running out
formance and its ease of use. of additive whilst I get on with looking
With the low volume applicator, you after my cows.”
only need a small volume of additive

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TROUW NUTRITION ENTERS NUTRITIONAL

PARTNERSHIP TO DRIVE STELLAPPS’ GAME-

CHANGER SOLUTION FOR INDIAN DAIRY FARMERS

Trouw Nutrition, the animal nutri- In addition to high-quality feed prod- our sector, helping us move towards
tion business line of Nutreco, has an- ucts, today’s nutritional partnership feeding the future sustainably. “By part-
nounced a long-term nutritional part- will see Stellapps benefit from Trouw nering with Stellapps we can expand
nership with India’s leading dairy-tech Nutrition’s 90 years of experience; its our reach in India and offer solutions
start-up Stellapps. innovative tools and farm management to help to increase milk quality and
expertise. yield for dairy farmers. I am thrilled
The partnership follows a success- that Trouw Nutrition will play an im-
ful 10-month pilot with 5,500 farmers portant role in supporting Stellapps’
across Uttar Pradesh and Kolar, Karna- customers by providing its nutritional
taka, which saw the use of Trouw Nu- health solutions.”
trition products, alongside mentoring In India, farmers with smaller herd
and training, and resulted in improved sizes often face barriers when seeking
farm outputs, such as milk yield and to grow their businesses sustainably,
profitability. including challenges such as financial
“I have been feeding Trouw Min to support, accessing high-quality prod-
my cows from February 2021”, says San- ucts and services, and expanding their
jay Yadav, a farmer from Chandauli, customer base.
Stellapps is a farm-to-consumer dairy Uttar Pradesh. He said he has noticed Yet despite this, there are huge op-
digitisation service provider, improv- an immense improvement in the quality portunities for India’s small-holding
ing productivity, quality and ensuring of the milk and the health of his cows community. India is the world’s largest
end-to-end traceability across the dairy since he started using the product. dairy market; approximately 570 mil-
supply chain. Nearly three million “Milk fat and SNF has improved, my lion litres of milk are produced daily,
smallholder farmers using Stellapps’ cows are healthy and their coats have and recent research indicates that the
technology in 36,000 villages across a good sheen,” remarks Sanjay. country’s dairy market is set to increase
India will now gain access to Trouw Both parties will now work together by 6% between 2021 and 2026.
Nutrition’s high-quality feed products, to build a strong advisory system that Stellapps Co-founder and CEO
including premixes and feed additives ensures small-holding dairy farmers in Ranjith Mukundan remarks, “We are
to support animal health, productivity, India increase their productivity and thrilled to work with Nutreco and its
and milk yield.
profitability. This is an important factor animal nutrition business line Trouw
The mutually-beneficial partner- at a time when the Indian government is Nutrition. This partnership will allow us
ship commits both parties to a close pursuing the target of doubling farmers’ to provide international quality cattle
cooperation to find innovative ways incomes by 2022. Today’s announce- nutrition solutions to smallholder farm-
of Feeding the Future, Nutreco’s pur- ment will accelerate this goal. ers in a retail fashion. We are confident
pose. It follows an announcement in that Trouw Nutrition products, with their
Trouw Nutrition CEO Saskia Korink
October which confirmed that Stellapps says, “The new Stellapps end-to-end proven record, will improve animal pro-
had completed its first close towards ductivity, animal health & milk quality
its pre-series C round, led by Nutreco, digitised model is a game-changer and as a result help boost smallholder
for Indian dairy farmers, and it is a
alongside other investors. farmer income significantly.”
shining example of innovation within
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