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Enhanced Utilization Of Sorghum And Pearl Millet Grains In Poultry Feeds – An Indian Perspective

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Title Enhanced Utilization Of Sorghum And Pearl Millet Grains In Poultry Feeds – An Indian Perspective
 
Creator Reddy, A R
Gowda, C L L
Reddy, B V S
Rai, K N
Waliyar, F
Alur, A S
Ravinder Reddy, Ch
 
Subject Millets
Sorghum
 
Description Sorghum and pearl millet are two important dry land crops that provide grain and fodder. India is the
largest pearl millet producer and second largest producer of sorghum in the world. The productivity of
these crops has been low due to various reasons such as unavailability of quality inputs to the farmers,
lack of access to improved technologies for crop production, unavailability of credit on time, grain
moulds, poor market linkages etc are some of the issues associated with these crops. There is large
potential for using sorghum and pearl millet as an alternate to maize in poultry feed. Improving the grain
quality by sorghum farmers and understanding the nutritive value of sorghum and pearl millet by poultry
producers and feed manufacturers is essential in the promotion of these crops for alternate uses. .
Chemical composition, nutritive value and utilization of sorghum and pearl millet for poultry reviewed.
The grain nutritive value is comparable and even better with some of the improved cultivars than maize.
Recently developed cultivars are low in tannins and grain moulds. Technology for prevention of grain
moulds through harvest of the crop at physiological maturity and drying the ear-heads with driers and
scientific storage methods have been proved to be the best practices that are demonstrated to the farmers
for high grain quality and better market price. New alternative markets are emerging for sorghum and
pearl millet grain uses. Sorghum and pearl millet are in the initial stages of entering the commercial chain
in both livestock and poultry feed, and in production of alcohol, starch and other products. Experiments
have also showed that maize can be replaced by sorghum harvested in rainy season even up to 100
percent, and that the use of rainy season-produced sorghum in poultry feed rations is more cost effective if
sorghum is priced at 15 to 20 per cent discount compared to maize
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2006
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5302/1/enhanced%20utilizarion%20of%20sorghum%20and%20pearl%20millet%20in%20npoultery%20feed-%20Rajashekar%20et%20al.%20paper.pdf
Reddy, A R and Gowda, C L L and Reddy, B V S and Rai, K N and Waliyar, F and Alur, A S and Ravinder Reddy, Ch (2006) Enhanced Utilization Of Sorghum And Pearl Millet Grains In Poultry Feeds – An Indian Perspective. In: The 8th Asian Pacific Poultry Conference 2007, 5-6 March 2007, Bangkok, Thailand.