Project report for Mineral Mixture for Cattle and Poultry Feed

Now a Days In India, Any individual can start a cattle and poultry feed manufacturing business as small and large scale basis. In addition, you can also start only cattle feed or only poultry feed manufacturing. First of all, select the ingredients in the right ratio. Then pass them through a disintegrator or pulverize to reduce the size of the particles to the required mesh size. Then weight the different powdered raw materials as per the formula. Put them into a ribbon blender for uniform mixing. Then add vitamins minerals mixes and molasses at this stage. When uniformly mixed, extrude the materials to get in pallet form or the finished product. Thus obtained is taken out as such and is packed in gunny bags and you will need to maintain the different mixing formula for different types of the product. The formulation of cattle feed largely depends on the various of cattle, milk yield, dairy ration etc. It is also important that the availability of the basic raw materials and their prevailing prices must be kept in mind while formulating the cattle feed.

Animal feeds are organic forms of essential trace minerals such as copper, iron, manganese and zinc. Animals absorb, digest and use mineral chelates better than inorganic minerals. This means that lower concentrations can be used in animal feeds. In addition, animals fed chelated sources of essential trace minerals excrete lower amounts in their faeces, and so there is less environmental contamination. Mineral chelates also offer health and welfare benefits in animal nutrition. The ideal protein concept is one of the most important advances in animal nutrition. It helps the animal maintain a balanced pattern of amino acids to maximize the growth performance and nitrogen retention in the livestock. A variety of amino acids are fed to livestock animals as supplements to increase their efficiency.

The Indian poultry feed industry, dependent on the sound growth of poultry has a great untapped potential. However, the southern part of India holds the maximum share of poultry production and consumption. Market researchers anticipate the poultry feed market to grow at a CAGR of around 8% during 2020-21. In coming years, the potential for packaged feed is expected to grow at a higher pace as compared with the traditional feed. In addition, the per capita consumption of milk, eggs, and broiler meat is growing rapidly. The Indian feed industry is undergoing a very exciting phase of growth for the next decade.

Animal nutrition is an important aspect of animal healthcare and is about 31% of the total animal health industry. It is estimated that poultry nutraceuticals is growing at compound annual growth rate (CAGR) 9% while cattle nutraceuticals is growing at only CAGR 6%. Animal health nutrition market is driven by milk boosters such as calcium supplements, followed by mineral mixtures and fat supplements. Calcium supplements and mineral mixtures contribute 85% of the total nutraceuticals market in bovine segment and Bypass fat constitutes 4%. Probiotics, Vitamin Premix and other supplements constitute the balance 11%. Similarly, amino acid supplements and toxin binders constitutes 58% of the total poultry nutraceuticals, followed by vitamin premixes 17%, growth promoters 6%, enzymes and probiotics 6%.

The demand for poultry, Meat and Egg products in India is highly income-and price-elastic while supply for these products is also highly price elastic. India, the world’s second largest developing economy, now has a large and rapidly expanding poultry and livestock sector. Development in India is being driven by rising incomes of the consuming masses and a shift in industry structure toward integrated ownership and coordination of the input, production, and marketing operations involved in production.