Transforming locally available feed ingredients into affordable and nutritious livestock feed pellets

Description

Description

An alternative feed innovation that uses crop by-products to create nutritious livestock feed. 

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Andreas
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What is the price range for the pelleting machines?

Have these machines be acquiered by the farmers themselves or with external funds?

Yanamani Nepal
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- Cost-benefit ratio of pellet technology?

- a possibility for local manufacturers?

- target environment for pellets?

 

 

 

Chris
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Why pellets as opposed to other forms of densifies feed (blocks etc.)?

Ben Lukuyu
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- very interesting technology. how long does it take to break even after investing in such pelleting machines?

- Is there evidence from the perfornance trials?

- have farmers paid for the machines themselves or with external support?

- what is the average price for the pelleting machines?

- how was the technology transfer (both machines and knowledge on how to make pellets) done?

- Is there any economic analysis on the financial viability of investing in a pelleting machine?

- How easily is it for a farmer to adopt the technology. what are the barriers for adoption?

Chris
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Are they accessible to all scale of farming?

Chris
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How do you ensure consistency of ingredients between suppliers and seasons?

 

Muluken Zeleke
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Cost-benefit analysis?

 

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