Project Report on Cattle And Poultry Feed

In India the animal feed industry is of recent origin, the first animal food plant having been established in 1960. There are today as many as 14 plant in the origanised sector, besides many small fed compounders which operate in large cities. The 14 organised units have modern or semimodern equipment for manufacturing compound feeds. All of them have excellent facilities for quality control and are well equipped for chemical analysis of  raw materials  and the finished products. The installed capacity for all types of feeds that can be produced in the units under organised sector in India is estimated in the neighbourhood of  630000  metric tonnes a year.  Taking  into account the expansion plans of the organised sector and at  least five more units going into production shortly, it is anticipated that the capacity of this industry in India is likely to increase to 1500,000 metric tonnes by the end of  1980,81. Two international Hatcheries viz the Arbor Acres and the shaver which started their operation in India in early 1960's created a large marketed for quality poultry feeds in North as well as in Western India. It was formed necessary to provide well balanced  feed to the hybrid birds to exploit their genetic potential to the maximum. Similary, the compound feeds for cattle are finding large markets all over India because of  the increased effort to produce more milk products.