FEED MILLS

FEED MILLS

Revival of the functioning of PARC Feed Mills at Naudero and ASI, NARC, Islamabad

Feed Technology Units at Naudero and ASI NARC are engaged in commercial activity for producing livestock feed products and validating its economic worth. Different feed types produced and sold to the farmers include cattle feed, bull feed, sheep and goats feed, fattening feed and multi-nutrient blocks. Clients are from interior Sindh and Islamabad, Pothohar, Murree, Kamalia and Peshawar. During one year of commercial activity that started last year after revival of the Feed Mill, approximately 247 tons of feed was produced at ASI, NARC. The Feed Mills are run as public service on ‘no profit and no loss’ basis for the benefit of livestock farming community.

PARC feed is 30% cheaper, produces 15% more milk and reduces calving interval by 4 months. Its production and marketing started in 1989. This successful technology development led to more than 45 livestock feed mills in the public and private sectors in the country with technical backstopping of PARC.