Cattle feed and feed additives are used for improving thequality of feed to enhance yield and overall cattle’s health. Cattle feed aregaining popularities mainly due to the enhance performance and increasingapplication such as growth promoter, prevention and cure of diseases and forimproving feed digestibility in cattle. India’s Cattle feed industry, which iscurrently at $15 billion, is poised to double and touch $ 30 billion by 2020 tocater to the growing protein requirements of the country.
Large ruminants like cattle play an important role in therural economy of the country. Population pressure on land necessitates devotingmost of the cultivable land for production of crops for direct humanconsumption and very limited area is made available for growing fodder crops.Thus most of our livestock have to depend on crop residues and by-products.