Improving the efficiencies of feedmills
There are five key areas where feedmills in India and other
developing countries should concentrate to make dramatic savings in the cost of
processing and either improve profitability or become more competitive in the
marketplace.
That’s the message Novus Animal Nutrition (India) Ltd’s
Director for South Asia, Dr Vaibhav Nagpal, had for the 80-plus delegates
attending the 1st Global Milling Conference in Chennai, India, on its
first day.
He told delegates, “We cannot improve what we can not control.
We cannot control what we can not measure. We cannot measure what we cannot
define.”
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| Dr Vaibhav Nagpal, Director – South Asia & South East Asia Pacific for Novus Inc |
Therefore, feed manufactures had to first define a plan in
order to gain control over their costs and avoid over formulating to compensate
for nutrient inconsistencies.
He provided examples of where simply knowingly over
formulating soybean meal in a diet by 0.2 percent would cost a reasonably-sized
company as much as US$100,000 per year.
Producing the wrong particle size also has significant
consequences for costs in the grinding process and subsequent conditioning
times and pellet quality. He provided data on ideal particle sizes that would
optimise throughput at the press and save energy. The impact on costs were also
to be seen in the growth rate of broilers further down the line.
In much the same way there were costs to be saved in the
provision of steam to the pellet press. To dry or inconsistent steam supplied
to the pellet press would see throughputs reduced and energy costs rise.
Dr Nagpal also highlighted the value of detecting and
eliminating salmonella from the production cycle and suggested cost-effective
ways of ‘cleaning’ production lines.
Finally, he mentioned HACCP and the need for overall mill
hygiene.
The 1st Global Milling Conference attracted both
feed millers and flour millers to Chennai for the first of a two-day meeting
that continues tomorrow, Saturday February 9, 2013.
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| A normal map of the world and a view of the world based on land allocated on a square metre per head of population. As a result Asia would account for 56 percent of the world’s land mass |
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