PHOTO REPORT: CAHE 2013

Wuhan, metropolis of 10 million inhabitants, is home to the famous Yellow Crane Tower.

Since 2011, this futuristic expo center has been opened in Wuhan as well. It is so new that the skyscrapers are yet to be built.

About eight halls of the complex were filled at the show CAHE 2013.

Only on the first day, more than 33,000 visitors from the Chinese animal husbandry industry came to the showgrounds.

On behalf of Reed Business, Geke Koudenburg and Vincent ter Beek were present. Here, the booth of Angel Yeast is visited.

Chinese housing & equipment company Big Herdsman showed its newest broiler cage at CAHE.

And many international companies were present too – despite recent outbreaks of avian influenza in China.

Hygiene and biosecurity are therefore two important themes at CAHE. Dutch company MS Schippers was therefore present, in its joint venture with De Heus and Wellhope, to introduce better cleaning and disinfection methods using foam.

Chinese companies also tried to catch the visitors attention by spraying into the aisle.

Six foreign countries had a pavilion – and so did Hubei Province, where Wuhan is located.

In the Netherlands pavilion, Nedap showed its Electronic Sow Feeding and sow management concepts.

For the Chinese feed mill machinery builder Muyang, Wuhan must have felt closer to home than Hanover or Atlanta.

All kinds of animal husbandry are being addressed at CAHE. Most attention was for swine production – but even those interested in camels could learn something.

Presentations, mostly in English, were given everywhere – but could be heard very well. These were given at the Da Bei Nong Group, research center for veterinary medicine.

The same stage, on the second day – the day that the general public is also welcomed to join the show. This day went less busy as the day went by – and the fun aspect came in too.

Whoever wanted to have a better helicopter view of his or her farm could find the right equipment at CAHE – these helicopters were sold in the halls.

After all, what matters is that everybody left happily.