Punjab Livestock & Dairy Development Board (PLDDB) has successfully conducted a trial of Total Mix Ration (TMR) "Wanda" from maize cobs at Livestock Experiment Station, Khizerabad, which will provide low-cost feeding material to farmers for their animals. PLDDB would conduct training sessions for interested farmers to produce maize cobs meal at their own farms, announced by PLDDB here on Thursday.
In next step, PLDDB will train the farmers about the technicalities of the Wanda so that they can easily produce it at their own farms easily. The new innovation will reduce the price of meat and milk in the market as the inputs cost of animal feeding will be reduced. As per laboratory report, maize cobs Wanda carries all required nutritional values as protein is around seven percent, dry matter 80 percent, calories/kg more than 4,000 and all other required minerals for a healthy animal. This meal is suitable for feedlot fattening flock, dairy animals, goat sheep and all other sort of animals. Production cost of the maize cobs meal is only seven rupees per kg whereas the rest all TMRs cost around 30 rupees per kg which was costly for farmers.
While congratulating the team involved in the experiment, CEO PLDDB Nabeel Arif said there was more than 50 percent fodder shortage in Pakistan, adding to overcome that shortage, PLDDB was searching new kinds of animal feeds and succeeded to produce that new meal.
Maize cobs meal is one of the innovations in fodder industry which would be expanded in all Pakistan, he further said. He referenced as per government documents, Pakistan was cultivating maize crop on 26 lacs acre every year and about 6.25 million ton maize cobs were available every year which were used for burn or waste but now PLDDB had experienced a wonderful value addition in the raw material of maize cobs and had produced animal meal with a nominal additions and insertions in it.
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