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Poultry – India’s most efficient converter of low fibre food stuff into high nutritious animal protein food.

The aim of poultry farming is to raise domestic fowls to produce eggs and chicken. For this, the fowls are given animal feeds in the form of roughage, which mainly consists of fibres. Thus, by feeding animals a fibre rich diet (along with adequate fat), the poultry gives highly nutritious animal protein food in the form of eggs and chicken. In India, it is the only reared animal that is able to provide large amounts of protein rich food with a low fibre food diet.


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