United States: Market education leads to DDGS sales to Myanmar

In 2020, Myanmar was listed by the Council as a new and emerging market with high potential in Southeast Asia. With a population of 53.6 million people, Myanmar’s underdeveloped feed industry was seen to have the same growth potential that Vietnam had 20 years earlier. However, the feed industry’s understanding of the economic and nutritional value of U.S. distiller’s dried grains was lacking. In fact, inclusion rates were disproportionately low, and the Council partnered with one of the largest regional feed millers with a presence in Myanmar to reverse this tide. Through a process of running formulations with local ingredients and imported ingredients, including DDGS, it became clear commonly-used formulation software was kicking out U.S.-produced DDGS. Further, energy equations assigned to U.S. origin DDGS were inappropriate due to unfamiliarity of DDGS by the software designers, who undervalued the product. The Council hired a consultant based out of Malaysia to help our ...