Biotechnology adds value to agricultural products

First, the company's basic introduction

Angel Yeast Co.
, Ltd.
(hereinafter referred to as "Anqi") is headquartered in Yichang City, Hubei Province, founded in 1986, after years of steady development, gradually grown into an international, professional listed company, leading products yeast and deep processing products, has been widely used in baking and fermented pasta, food seasoning, brewing, animal nutrition, human nutrition health, microbial nutrition, plant nutrition and other fields
.

In 2021, Angel Company achieved an operating income of more than 10.
7 billion yuan, and has built 13 yeast factories in Yichang, Hubei, Liuzhou and Chongzuo in Guangxi, Dehong and Pu'er in Yunnan, Yili and Kekedara in Xinjiang, Chifeng in Inner Mongolia, Suixian in Henan, Binzhou and Jining in Shandong, as well as Beniswev Province in Egypt and Lipetsk Oblast in Russia, with a total production capacity of more than 350,000 tons of yeast products, exported to 163 countries and regions, accounting for more than 60% of the domestic market and more than 15% of the world, and the production and sales scale has ranked first in Asia.
Second in the
world.

Anqi's development process is a process of continuously promoting technological progress and scientific and technological innovation, and has undertaken and completed 84 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, and won 48 scientific and technological progress awards, including 2 national science and technology awards, 31 provincial and ministerial science and technology awards, including 11 provincial and ministerial first prizes
.
He led and participated in the formulation of all national and industrial standards in the yeast industry, and obtained 238 authorized invention patents
.

Angie's lead product, yeast, requires a large amount of carbon during processing, which currently comes mainly from molasses
.
Molasses is a by-product formed by the processing of sugar from sugarcane, sugar beet and other agricultural products, and it accounts for about 95%
of the total nutrients required for yeast production.

Through the development and expansion of the yeast industry, the use of modern biotechnology, the absorption and transformation of agricultural products deep processing products, scientific utilization, "eating dry and squeezing out", enhancing the value of agricultural products, extending the yeast industry chain, and achieving economic, environmental and social benefits
.

Second, the use of biotechnology to help the development of agricultural products

The high-value utilization of agricultural and sideline products is closely linked to agricultural production

The annual output of molasses in China is about 3 million tons, of which the annual output of sugarcane molasses is about 2.
7 million tons, and the annual output of beet molasses is about 300,000 tons
.

Before the modern yeast industry and other major developments, molasses was a "useless" environmental pollutant, and sugar companies regarded it as a "hot potato"
.
At present, molasses is mainly used in yeast production, alcohol production, animal breeding, monosodium glutamate or organic acid fermentation, binders and other industries, of which more than 55% of the total molasses is used in yeast production
.

As the largest yeast company in China, Angel is the largest purchaser of molasses in China, in 2020 alone, Angel purchased 1.
5 million tons of molasses, which is equivalent to 2.
4 billion yuan of molasses
purchased by Angel every year at 1600 yuan per ton.
Angel successfully turned molasses into treasure and improved the utilization value of
agricultural products.

Angel has built an integrated plant
for sugar collection and yeast processing in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia.
Relying on Anqi company, Chifeng Weng Niu Special Banner adopts the "company + base + farmer" model to vigorously promote sugar beet planting, and farmers sign purchase and sales agreements with enterprises, so that farmers do not have to worry about sales problems, and can also sell
orders at market prices.

In recent years, Angel has planted about 170,000 mu of sugar beets and purchased about 600,000 tons of sugar beets in Chifeng Wengniu Special Banner every year, driving more than 2,000 farmers to become rich, including nearly 200 poor households planting more than 7,300 mu of sugar beets, with an average household income of 29,000 yuan
.
In the past three years, the subsidy area has reached 150,000 mu, and the total amount of subsidies to growers is nearly 10 million yuan
.

As a leading enterprise in the industrialization of Chifeng agriculture and animal husbandry, Angel Chifeng Factory will achieve a total output value of 800 million yuan in 2021 and place 860 jobs
.
Since 2017, Angel has carried out sugar beet planting training involving more than 10,000 farmers, combining theory and field training to improve the planting level of farmers, and the average yield of sugar beet has increased from 2.
6 tons / mu in 2017 to more than
3 tons / mu at present.

At the same time, Angel has also established long-term cooperative relations with sugar raw material enterprises and planting enterprises in sugarcane producing areas such as Guangxi and Yunnan, stabilizing the sustainable income
of the upstream industrial chain.

Promote green manufacturing and create a "farmland-to-farmland" green industry

Actively responding to the national "dual carbon" strategy, Angel vigorously promotes green manufacturing in all companies and actively develops a green circular economy
.

The first is to carry out energy conservation and consumption
reduction.
Through the comprehensive promotion of energy-saving equipment, energy-saving technology and waste heat and pressure recovery, the energy consumption
of various energy-using equipment in the factory is reduced.
The production plant uses magnetic levitation fans or magnetic levitation chillers to carry out boiler automation transformation, implement heat energy recovery, energy cascade utilization, and improve the energy efficiency of energy-using
facilities.
In 2021, 28 energy-saving and carbon-reduction technical transformation projects were implemented, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 19,700 tons
.

The second is the use of clean energy
.
Vigorously develop and use clean energy and promote the replacement of
traditional fossil fuels.
The wastewater treatment workshops of each Angel factory use anaerobic bacteria to treat fermented organic wastewater to produce biogas, which is reused in biogas boilers to produce steam
.
In 2021, 16.
89 million cubic meters of biogas will be recycled, steam procurement will be reduced by 88,000 tons, and carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced by 27,000 tons
.

The third is recycling
.
Angel turns the organic matter enriched and recovered from fermentation wastewater into treasure, and produces yeast-derived organic fertilizer through dry powder spraying or composting process, which can promote the proliferation of microorganisms, improve soil quality, improve the utilization rate of fertilizers by crops, achieve quality improvement and yield increase, and effectively solve the problems
of soil acidification, compaction and fertility reduction caused by long-term application of chemical fertilizers.
It has gradually explored and formed a circular economy industrial chain of "raw materials from the processing of agricultural products, main products on the table, and derivative products serving agriculture", and achieved sustainable development
.
Since 2003, Angel has invested more than 4 million tons
of organic fertilizer products.
In the past 20 years of application, farmers have generally reported that the products have obvious effects of promoting growth, stress resistance, quality improvement and yield increase, and the effect on soil remediation and improvement is obvious
.

Strengthen the yeast deep processing industry and drive the development of related agricultural products

Continuously extend the yeast industry chain and effectively enhance the value of
agricultural products such as molasses and hydrolyzed sugar.
For more than 30 years, Angel has continuously strengthened scientific and technological innovation, developed advanced technologies with independent intellectual property rights, and expanded application fields, from the initial 2,000 tons of yeast production scale to today's 350,000 tons of fermentation capacity, while growing its own industry, it has more effectively driven the large-scale development
of upstream raw materials.

Angel took the lead in innovatively developing and applying yeast to China's staple food steamed buns, steamed buns and other fields, fundamentally solving the problems of "slow fermentation speed, food safety insecurity, and difficult industrialization" of traditional old noodle fermentation, and providing a technical foundation
for the modernization and industrialization of Chinese noodles.
The new fermentation technology has spawned noodle processing enterprises and steamed bun chain stores all over the country, with an annual output of 200 billion yuan
.
Agricultural products such as flour have developed like never before
.

Angel applied yeast technology to the field of winemaking, set off a revolution in the brewing industry, optimized the brewing production process, improved the wine production rate of wine enterprises, stabilized the quality of wine, and expanded the competitiveness
of brewing enterprises.
It has promoted the high-value utilization
of biomass raw materials such as corn, sorghum, rice, and straw.

Angel undertakes the national scientific and technological research project of yeast extract, and through more than 20 years of development, yeast extract has been promoted to many subdivisions of the food industry, becoming the core seasoning raw material
of "salt reduction and saltiness, clean label".
The yeast extract developed by Angel has become a new organic nitrogen source and biological medium
widely used in the biological fermentation industry.
At present, the production scale of Angel yeast extract is nearly 100,000 tons, ranking first
in the world.

Angel also uses the nutritional properties of yeast to develop deep processing products such as yeast dextran, selenium-rich and zinc-rich, which are applied to animal breeding, human nutrition and health, etc.
, further expanding the use scenarios
of yeast.

Angie's industrial innovation has led to the development of China's yeast industry, and China has become the world's largest yeast producer and exporter
.
Angel actively responds to the "Belt and Road" initiative and has established factories in Egypt and Russia, becoming a model of high-quality development of
the yeast industry.

2.
Form demonstration and promotion value

According to the strategic requirements of circular economy development, Angel improves the utilization rate of resources through technological progress, material circulation and industrial symbiosis, so as to "eat dry and squeeze clean", reduce resource consumption, reduce environmental pollution, and improve the ecological efficiency of
enterprises 。 Ensure that the enterprise in the rapid development at the same time, reduce the negative impact on the environment, so that the increase of environmental load within the allowable range of environmental capacity, at the same time on the basis of the company's existing industrial chain, planning to focus on the research of the supporting relationship between the industrial chain, emphasize the horizontal coupling and vertical closure of the product chain, the integration of materials and energy in the production system, so that the traditional linear industrial development model to the new ecological industrial model transformation, the formation of planting, fermentation, fertilizer industry upstream and downstream material support relationship, The establishment of a circular economy development model of material recycling, resource sharing, by-product exchange and self-recycling has realized the win-win situation of circular economy pilot enterprises in economic, environmental and social benefits, and has played a good exemplary role
in promoting the sustainable development of organic agriculture.

Responsible Editor: Zhao Yu Review: Wang Jinchen