'use modern nutritional supplements'

LIVESTOCK and pig farmers have been urged to introduce modern nutritional supplements into their animal feed to ensure their longevity.
At a symposium for farmers held on the theme “Economic and Health Benefits of Enzymes”, which brought together pig and livestock farmers from the Greater Accra Region, an Animal Nutritionist from Germany, Dr Ibrahim Kadrieh, took the participants through the benefits of introducing enzymes into animal feed as well as fat powder, an innovative feed supplement.
Dr Kadrieh told them that the best way to maximise their profit margins was to increase the utilisation of enzymes which were essential for elevating the energy levels of animals.
He said in poultry production the introduction of enzymes into feed had assumed an alarming proportion in more than 60 countries given its benefits adding that in modern stock farming it was becoming increasingly important to optimise the individual components of the feed for livestock.
Dr Kadrieh who is the Area Manager of Berg/Schmidt, a German based feed industry with a mission to develop essential vegetable substances for healthy animal nutrition and profitable stock farming, announced that the fat powder was yet to be marketed on the Ghanaian market.
He explained that fats in powder form was both a practical and a high quality alternative supplement since it was easy to dose, store and process and that in the case of pigs and poultry especially, their fatty-acid composition made it possible to control carcass.
“First class fat powders are gaining more and more significance as sources of energy to livestock,” he stressed.
Dr Kadrieh advised Ghanaian livestock farmers that through the use of enzymes and other modern nutritional supplements they could make more money to boost their produce.
The Executive Secretary of the Greater Accra Poultry Farmers Association, Mr Francis Hammond, in a separate interview called on farmers to move away from the archaic methods of feeding their birds and embrace modern techniques of nutritional supplement for their birds.