IPB Chancellor invites various parties to find solutions to animal feed problems in Indonesia

Published 2021년 3월 4일

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A virtual seminar titled "Evidence-Based Policies in Competitive Feed" was conducted by the Center for Food Agriculture & Advocacy, Indonesian Academy of Sciences, and IPB University, focusing on the challenges and the importance of providing quality and competitive feed in the livestock industry. The seminar underscored the need for formulating systemic feed development, consolidation among breeders, and supporting local feed ingredients. The feed industry faces challenges such as high taxation on imported feed ingredients and the lack of local alternatives. The seminar also pointed out the need for land expansion for feed ingredient production, industrialization of soybeans, and improvements in logistics and standardization of feed material transportation.

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POULTRYINDONESIA, Jakarta - The feed component plays an important role and occupies the largest input value in the livestock business process. However, in its development, various challenges are still found in the effort to provide quality and competitive feed. Departing from this, the Center for Food Agriculture & Advocacy (Pataka) in collaboration with the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI) and IPB University held a virtual seminar with the theme "Evidence-Based Policies in Competitive Feed," through the Zoom application, Thursday (4 / 3). In his remarks, the Rector of IPB University, Prof. Dr. Arif Satria, SP, M.Si. said that efforts in exploring or looking for steps to achieve feed sovereignty are very important to do. Feed in animal husbandry is an important factor and has a very large share, so it is necessary to find alternatives to various feed ingredients that have high quality and affordable prices. In an effort to develop this feed, it must be formulated in a ...

Source: Poultry