Market Report

Feed additives and supplements have a vital existence pertaining to the performance enhancement of dairy animals as well as poultry. Presently, they are very important for feed formulation and vital for the preparation of a balanced diet. Major type of additives and supplements that are being used are prebiotics, antibiotic growth promoters, probiotics, mould inhibitors, toxin binders, enzymes, anti-coccidial supplements, amino acids, acidifiers, by-pass fat, non-antibiotic growth promoters, antioxidant and more. Many of these products are imported from developed countries. Fishmeal and meat-meal are the most popularly used poultry feed owing to their high production and availability, better consciousness a well as better meal in most poultry rations. However, the quality of fishmeal is degrading which has consequently led soybean meal to replace fishmeal and meat. Meat-meal, fishmeal, bone-meal and dicalcium phosphate of bone origin are the basic raw ingredients existing for animal fe...