Essay Example on Table 2 Supply and Demand of Green and Dry Fodder Figures

 In concentrates coarse cereals have a major role Maize accounts for around 56 percent of the total coarse cereals produced in the India It is used as livestock as well as poultry feed in large scale Concentrates are made at home by mixing different grains and other ingredients as well as are available in the market There are three sources for concentrates 1 Home mixers 2 Dairy cooperatives and 3 Private sector manufacturers of compound cattle feed Commercial production of cattle feed is about 6 million tonnes and is expected to grow at an average annual rate of 4 per cent for the next three to five years CLFMA 2015 At this growth rate there will still be supply and demand gap Cooperatives have set up feed processing plants with the support of NDDB The feed production from cooperatives is about 2 5 million tonnes per year Table 8 Table 5 Sector wise Compound Feed Production 2010 11 Figures in million tonnes Sector Compound feed production Private Sector 1 2 Co operative Sector 2 5 Unorganized Sector 1 8 Source Livestock Industry Report 2015 CLFMA of India