Betagro experiments with feathers in animal feed

The Agricultural Research Development Agency and Kasetsart University and Batagro Science Center Co have teamed up to develop keratines enzymes that use chicken feather waste to produce animal feed. This will help the company to utilise its large volume of feather waste and will reduce the need to import keratines enzymes, a high protein supplement.

About 1,200 tons of feathers are produced as waste from Thailand's largest chicken producers and exporters. The Betagro Group had been spending about 10 million baht (€233,000) a year to import the enzyme and with the ban on the use of antibiotics as a growth promoter in animal feed by European Union, the Betagro group has seen a chance to expand its operations. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers