New animal feed plant from Pelwatte Dairy
View(s):Pelwatte Dairy Industries Ltd, in a pioneering venture, has set up its own state-of-the-art animal feed plant in close proximity to its factory and farms in Buttala.
Section of the animal feed plant
The plant which is operated under Indian technology has a current output capacity of 1,200 tonnes per month. Although it is predominantly cattle feed that is produced for the moment, plans are also underway to commence poultry feed production over the next few months, the company said in a media release.
“We first decided to start an animal feed plant to serve our own farms and neighbouring dairy farmers. However, the high quality of the cattle feed we were producing resulted in dairy farmers in the district itself requesting for our feed. The cattle feed plant now serves more than 750 farmers in the Moneragala district alone supplying more than 100,000 kg of feed per month,” said Akmal Wickramanayake, the Managing Director of PDIL.
The animal feed plant produces a range of cattle feed products including calf starter feed to transition the calf from the milk–feeding period to the dry feeding period, general cattle feed for heifer and dry cows, and high-yield cattle feed for high yielding cows. Production of the cattle feed is carried out by highly-skilled and trained staff from the Research and Development to Production Departments.