Skretting's new feed factory in Nigeria's Ibadan region is likely to open next year or in early 2021, Nutreco Managing Director for Africa Rob Kiers told IntraFish.

"We are constructing as we speak," Kiers said.

The 75,000-metric-ton capacity plant will mainly produce feed for catfish, the predominant species among aquaculture producers in Nigeria. It will also produce feed for tilapia grown in the country.

"It takes time to build and engineer a feed mill but we have acquired all the land and done all the engineering and hopefully in the course of next year or latest early 2021 we will be able to start full-scale commercial production there."