Green Era Biotech Corporation is the first company in the Philippines to process and manufacture fermented soya bean meal, which we call Golden Protein.

Blue Ocean Strategy
Fermented Soya Bean Meal as an Ideal Substitute for Fishmeal

The advancement in fishing technology in the past decade has inadvertently depleted the ocean’s fishes and the world’s annual harvest. About 75% of the annually captured fishes are used for direct human consumption, while the remaining 25% are used for the production of fishmeal and oil. Likewise, the annual production of fishmeal and other related by-products needed for aquaculture feeds is decreasing at an alarming rate. Its negative effect can be felt as prices of fishmeal continue to rise.

To address this problem, scientists in the field of biotechnology have developed methods such as fermentation and hydrolization to improve the digestibility of soya bean meal and other ingredients. 

Soya bean is mass produced and has a stable harvest, but in the past, nutritionists doubted the quality of soya bean meal as a substitute for fishmeal because of the anti-nutritional factors that are in the soya bean meal. But using the successfully developed methods of fermentation together with probiotics and rigid quality control measures, we have been able to consistently decrease the anti-nutritional factors that are in the soya bean meal, making fermented soya bean meal an important partial or complete substitute for fishmeal.

In fact, we believe that fermented soya bean meal is a better ingredient in feeds than fishmeal, not only because of its cost-efficiency, but also because fermented soya bean meal is not as likely to get contaminated by Salmonella during production and storage as fishmeal and because the probiotics that are in the fermented soya bean meal can help improve the immune system of the animals.

Fermented soya bean meal can be used in aqua feeds, piglet feeds and other livestock feeds for young animals.

Green Era Biotech Corporation is the first company in the Philippines to process and manufacture fermented soya bean meal, which we call Golden Protein.