The sixth Annual Aqua Feed Extrusion Conference will be held in January 2022

Due to the ongoing worldwide pandemic, the management teams of VICTAM Corporation and VIV worldwide have decided to postpone VICTAM Asia and Health & Nutrition Asia in Bangkok to the third quarter of 2022. The current situation is still not as optimal as it was estimated. Above all, the health of exhibitors and visitors and the successful outcome of the event are most important to the organisers.

In light of the recent increase in Covid-19 cases, which has forced the Royal Thai Government to implement new strict measures to control the spread of the pandemic, and the delays of the vaccination programs in several Asian countries, VICTAM and VIV do not see the opportunity to realise a large-scale event on the short term. Looking at the ongoing travel restrictions from and to Asia, the organisers also believe that it is not possible to guarantee the event quality they are known for. The postponement to the third quarter of 2022 is in the interest of the whole industry.

It is a very unfortunate time that with Covid restrictions, lots of people cannot travel to other countries and attend conferences, seminar, or short courses face to face. But the Aqua feed industry is booming and not stopping the growth of their business as everyone must secure their food supply and eat healthy food because of this pandemic.

The management team for the Aqua feed Conference decided to hold their sixth annual Aqua feed Extrusion conference virtually like the last conference, on January 11-12, in order not to postpone it. Major extruder companies (Andrtiz, Clextal, Extru- Tech, Wenger) are already committed to give talk at this conference, as well as other equipment and ingredients suppliers, (Reynolds Engineering, Kemin and Texas A&M University). Very soon they will be adding more speakers to their program. If any equipment or ingredients company is interested in giving a talk at this conference, they can contact Dr. Mian N. Riaz, from Texas A&M University via his email (mnriaz@tamu.edu). The program will be finalised soon and emailed out.

The experience and feedback from the last two virtual live online conferences was excellent, several participants could not travel because of several reasons but they were able to join via zoom to listen the latest technology. This year again there will be two days of Virtual Live online conferences via zoom.

For more information and opportunities for sponsoring this conference please contact Tuti Tan, HERE.

The Aquaculturists

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