Abstract:
The animal feed industry has a wide choice of utilising various cereals, millets,
agricultural wastes, oilseed meals, various chunnies, fish/silkworm meal and
other available local material to evolve formulations to meet the nutritional
standards.The genetic potential for milk production of the crossbreed cows
and buffaloes can be fully exploited by providing nutritious and palatable green
fodder throughout the year. On an average, about 35-40 kg of green fodder is
required per day per adult animal. If the indigenous breeds are fed adequately
with the supplement of concentrated feed, their milk yield can be increased by
30%. On an average, even 10% improvement in feeding efficiency can increase
the milk output by 25% . In the case of poultry, about 2.1 kg of poultry feed is required to produce
1 kg of live weight broiler. Due to feed efficiency, a broiler takes 7-9 weeks to attain 1.8 kg weight.
