The Hindu Business Line : Icrisat launches new poultry feed project

THE International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (Icrisat), along with partners from R&D sectors, has launched a collaborative project to enhance the use of sorghum and pearl millet grains in the poultry feed industry in India, China and Thailand.

Funded by the Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) of the Netherlands, in association with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, the project brings together partners from agricultural research institutes, universities, NGOs, poultry feed manufacturers, poultry growers and farmers groups from the three countries.

The Deputy Director of Icrisat, Dr Dyno Keatings, launched the project that blends the relative strengths of the partners so that poor and marginal farmers get the best value from sorghum and pearl millet. By increasing the use of the crops grown in the dry parts of the developing world, the project will help disadvantaged farmers.

Dr Keatings urged the partners to build upon the pilot project on sorghum use for poultry feed funded by DFID (Department for International Development).

The three-year project has a total funding of $2.1 million. Of this, $1.5 is from the CFC grant and the remaining will be contributions from the partners. In India, the project will be operational in Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.

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