Increased production cost is main challenge in poultry industry
Business Desk :
The country’s poultry industry has massive potentials; however, the gradual increasing production cost is posing a challenge to this sector.
One of the major underlying reasons is the rise of the cost of the raw materials that goes into poultry production, poultry feed being one of them.
Over the past few years, in addition to the increase in price of corn and soy, two major ingredients of poultry feed, increase in fuel prices has also catered to the increase of poultry feed production cost.
The Netherlands, one of the prominent countries with advanced agricultural practices, has developed energy- efficient feed mills as per scientific systems by using less costly and energy-saving methods to reduce the overall production cost.
Speakers highlighted this while addressing a discussion titled ‘Poultry Tech Bangladesh hosts Feed Milling Workshop’ at a hotel at Gulshan in the capital on Wednesday night.
Under the public-private partnership, Poultry Tech Bangladesh, Netherlands-based consultant firm Larive International, along with their co-implementer, Light Castle Partners jointly organized the event.
Van Aarsen, one of the consortium members of the Poultry Tech Bangladesh project and developer, manufacturer and supplier of state of the art machines and complete feed mill and premix plant solutions, mainly conducted the session.
On behalf of Van Aarsen International B.V, Roger Ubags, area sales manager for South East Asia, presented a keynote paper titled ‘Energy Capacity at Feed Mill’ at the discussion.
In the keynote, it was told that Van Aarsen has been working since 1949 for making a modern animal feed processing and manufacturing feed mill for providing quality and safe foods for poultry birds.
There are 40 such feed mills in the world at the moment.
Energy saving is being done in those mills by using modern scientific methods. It would be possible to ensure the supply of poultry feeds at less cost if such a method is used on a large scale in Bangladesh.
