Straw-based animal feed block

It is the process of making animal feed blocks of size 20 cm x 20 cm by mixing rice straw with essential nutritional elements. The self-life of the feed blocks is more than one year and it is very economical to transport to distant places.

The rice straw collected from farmers field are passed through chaff cutter machine and straw are made into pieces of about 1- to 2-inch size. The essential mineral mixtures (splitted maize grain, green gram, black gram, horse gram and jaggery) for increasing its nutritional quality and chopped rice straw placed in the mixing machine. The mixture output from the mixing machine is then passes through the feed block making unit which then makes feed blocks of 3.5 kg each.